Antique French Savonnerie Carpet, Louis XVI Style, circa 1900s

Under the direction of Pierre Dupont and Simon Lourdet carpet production commenced in France in the early 17th Century. In 1608, a workshop was set up in the Louvre, followed by the ...

Antique French Savonnerie carpet France circa 1920. Handwoven.  

Nice large Spanish Savonnerie 18th century style with beautiful decorative Louis XVI from castle of Versailles design, beautiful and light colors with green, yellow, blue and gold br...

This coarsely knotted piece shows a colorful rose wreath on the sand ground. Additional roses decorate the teal inner border. Detail tones include lemon, goldenrod,off white, red, me...

Antique French savonnerie design mechanical carpet with a floral design in style of Aubusson rugs and nice colours with orange, pink, yellow and white green, on a white background, m...

The madder red field features an allover pattern of laurel wreaths surrounding either complex rosettes or leaf and star arrays. The burnt apricot and camel border displays tight flor...

French oversize Savonnerie rug carpet, circa 1890. French Savonnerie carpets have been produced since the 1600s. The name comes from the French w...

French Savonnerie carpet, 1920 France, circa 1920.

During the early seventeenth century, a weaver named Pierre DuPont travelled to the Levant. Upon his return, he claimed to have discovered the technique of creating Turkish rugs. Oriental rugs were extremely expensive during Bourbon times, and a French manufactory that could create the same type of rug would lower the price significantly. Henri VI of France–the reigning monarch at the time–took advantage of DuPont’s skills and established a workshop for him at the Louvre. In 1627, King Louis XIII founded a manufactory for DuPont and his apprentice, Simon Lourdes, on the site of a defunct soap factory in the sixteenth arrondissement (also known as Quai de Chaillot). The name “Savonnerie” was born from the French word “Savon” meaning “soap.” DuPont and Lourdes worked together, weaving rugs under a royal patent for the king and other nobles until they had a falling out and split up. Lourdes remained at the Chaillot location while DuPont went to his workshops in the Louvre, though both continued to make Savonnerie rugs. Antique rugs, French Savonnerie carpet, Beige Floral carpet...

Under the direction of Pierre Dupont and Simon Lourdet carpet production commenced in France in the early 17th Century. In 1608, a workshop was set up in the Louvre, followed by the ...