19th Century - Handwoven Aubusson Rug - French Antique Design - Green and Floral

-French restoration period handwoven antique Aubusson rug, -circa 1830 -wool -290 x 240 cm / 9.5 x 7.87 ft At Boccara Gallery, we have an important collection of Aubusson rugs from the 18th-20th century. The style developed in Aubusson is recognized today as one of the most influential of the European rug and tapestries History. Workshops to produce Aubusson flat-woven rugs were established under the royal warrant in 1743 to manufacture pile carpets primarily for the nobility. Many weavers who settled in France were Huguenots who had fled Spain during the Inquisition in the early 16th century. By issuing the edict of Nantes, Henry IV granted all non-Catholics freedom of worship, thereby protecting the carpet weavers in Aubusson. Aubusson weavers became the finest craftsmen in the world. Louis XIV’s influential Prime Minister Colbert established the long and hard...

-Mid-19th Century Napoleon III Period Handwoven Antique Aubusson Wool & -Material: wool & silk -Dimensions: 155 x 144 cm; 5.1 x 4.7 ft Boccara Gallery has an important collection of Aubusson rugs from the XVIIIth to the XXth centuries. The style developed in Aubusson is recognized today as one of the most influential of the European rug and tapestries History. Workshops to produce Aubusson flat-woven rugs were established under the royal warrant in 1743 to manufacture pile carpets primarily for the nobility. Many weavers who settled in France were Huguenots who had fled Spain during the Inquisition in the early sixteenth century. By issuing the edict of Nantes, Henry IV granted all non-Catholics freedom of worship, thereby protecting the carpet weavers in Aubusson. Aubusson weavers became the finest craftsmen in the world. Louis XIV’s influential Prime Minister Colbert established the long and hard...

Manufacture of Jean-Jacques Sallandrouze According to Jules Chebeaux Cotton (chain) wool (weft) c. 1851 197 x 197 in, 500 x 500 cm Excellent condition In the 1850s, Jean-Jacques Sal...

-Original Art Deco Wool Rug wool rug by Paule Leleu. -Material: Wool -Year: 1940s -Dimensions: 600 x 435cm; 19.7 x 14.3 ft.  

Handwoven in wool, circa 1890-1900, this 5x6 antique Aubusson flatweave style rug features a green and pink field, with beige medallions. It's an unusually rare design, given its lar...

This antique French Aubusson rug features a moss-green field surrounded by an octagonal ivory stripe with an ivory inward hanging tassel and scattered with pistachio-green flowerhead...

8'6 x 13'8. The central ivory medallion with wonderfully detailed floral emblems sits on a green field enclosed by a wonderful encroaching border. The Aubusson workshops, on the rive...

Handwoven in wool, this 12x14 French Antique Aubusson rug features a play of medallion and all over style with floral patterns particularly acanthus motifs, the curvaceous garlands i...