Modern Hand stitched Jute Carpet Rug Provenza Green Stripes Ivory

This fantastic area blue runner rug has been handwoven with a beautiful all-over floral design woven on an ivory blue background with cream green and ivory a...

Good size and wonderful condition rug. When it comes to decorating the floor of your home, we cannot think of a better way then with a good quality rug. This stylish and hand knotte...

This fantastic area rug has a beautiful botanical and floral design woven on an ivory, green, and blue background with cream-green and ivory accents. This elegant piece's colour and ...

This handwoven Oriental needlepoint rug was woven runner by hand in China in the early 21st century. The central design features a symmetrical floral pattern woven with a unique colo...

This fantastic area foral rug has been handwoven with a beautiful all-over floral design on an ivory-blue background with accents of cream, green, pink and ivory. This elegant piece'...

This fantastic floral rug has been handwoven with a beautiful all-over floral design woven on an ivory background with cream-green, blue and ivory accents. This elegant piece's colou...

This fantastic area rug has been handwoven with a beautiful symmetrical large-scale botanical Rug design woven on an ivory blue/ Green background with accents of cream green and ivor...

This fantastic area rug has been handwoven with a beautiful symmetrical floral design woven on an ivory blue background with cream green and ivory accents. This elegant piece's colou...

This fantastic area runner rug has been handwoven with a beautiful symmetrical floral design woven on an ivory beige green background with cream green and ivory accents. This elegant...

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...