Wonderful Antique French Aubusson Empire Design Rug

Exquisite large Antique French Aubusson rug from the early 20th century, meticulously handwoven in wool on Aubusson looms. Featuring a Louis XVI-style floral design in lovely light h...

Very beautiful late 19th century French Aubusson tapestry with beautiful design of older tapestries probably with Maximilian historical design, and nice...

Very beautiful and Aubusson tapestry with a nice design featuring a part of the design of a medieval tapestry at a museum in Paris « La promenade » the promenade, a tapestry from the...

Very beautiful mid century original French Aubusson tapestry with nice romantic design and beautiful colors, entirely hand woven with wool a...

Very beautiful and fine Aubusson tapestry with a nice design of the royal court with knights, and very beautiful colors, entirely and finely handwoven with wool and silk, at the famo...

Very beautiful and fine Aubusson tapestry with a nice design featuring two cows under the tree , with beautiful natural colours, with yellow, beige, brown and green, entirely and fin...

Antique French Aubusson rug, circa 1890. Aubusson carpets are pile less and tapestry woven from that town to the southwest of Paris, by a group of independent weavers working under Royal or State protection. The designs are strictly classical, neoclassical or Victorian. They are virtually never “oriental”. The pattern wefts are wool with silk and/or metal thread for details in the more finely woven examples. Sizes tend toward the squarish and pieces 30’ by 30’ are not unknown. The 18th-19th century French clients included the nobility and haute bourgeoisie. Aubusson carpets were also exported to England and are often to be found in country houses. Light colors are the most popular and dark toned pieces are very rare. Besides traditional Louis furniture...

The Aubusson tapestry manufacture of the 17th and 18th centuries managed to compete with the royal manufacture of Gobelins tapestry and the privileged position of Beauvais tapestry. Tapestry manufacture at Aubusson, in the upper valley of the Creuse in central France, may have developed from looms in isolated family workshops established by Flemings that are noted in documents from the 16th century. Typically, Aubusson tapestries depended on engravings as a design source or the full-scale cartoons from which the low-warp tapestry-weavers worked. As with Flemish and Parisian tapestries...

The Aubusson workshops, on the river Creuse in France, are famous for their antique European rugs, carpets and tapestries, woven since the 18th century. The Royal Council established...

73014 Antique French Silk Aubusson Tapestry, 05'00 x 07'00. French Aubusson tapestries are exquisite handwoven textiles originating from the town of Aubusson in central France. Craft...

17th Century Handwoven recreation of the Classic French flat-weave Aubusson rugs that have been found in the finest homes and palaces since the late 17th century. Size: 10' 8'' x 15'...

Handwoven recreation of the Classic French flat-weave Aubusson rugs that have been found in the finest homes and palaces since the late 17th century. Size: 9' 3” x 11' 10”.