pattern book

…are found repeatedly in the pattern books of German and Flemish artists of the time—books of ornament which circulated among and influenced metalworkers, carvers, plasterers and furniture makers throughout the north.

During this decade pattern books of ornament in the full Rococo style by Matthias Lock and Henry Copland were published in London; and in 1754 Thomas Chippendale published his Gentleman and Cabinet Maker’s Director, which provided patterns for a wide range of English furniture in the Rococo style…