The Caramanian pattern was first introduced in about 1809. The designs were taken from Volume Two of a three-part work entitled Views in Egypt, Palestine and the Ottoman Empire published in 1803. Part one covering Egypt and Part Three, Palestine, were not copied. Volume Two is headed 'Views in the Ottomans Empire chiefly in Caramania, a part of Asia Minor hitherto unexplored, with some curious selections from the Islands of Rhodes and Cyprus and the celebrated Cities of Corinth, Carthage and Tripoli, from the original drawings in the possession of Sir R. Ainslie, taken during his embassy to Constantinople by Luigi Mayer'.

The pattern was a multi-scene pattern and was produced on a new dinnerware shape with oval dishes. Full details of the scenes used can be found in the bookdetailed below by Drakard and Holdway. The pattern is also known in black, grey and possibly green.

In the late 1990s the pattern was reintroduced as part of The Blue Room Collection.

Shown here with the other patterns in the Traditions Collection: six blue underglaze period designs on Spode's Camilla shape. Milkmaid, Lucano, Caramanian, Greek, Castle and Aesop's Fables.