Antique Floral Needlework Carpet

One-of-a-kind Antique Floral Needlework Carpet Size: 7'2" × 7'5" (218 × 226 cm) This antique needlepoint rug is a rare treat for the connoisseurs of traditional art and craft. Its bo...

Fine Antique Botanic orange needlework carpet Size: 11'0" × 14'10" (335 × 452 cm) A late 19th century needlework carpet, having a sand ground with whimsical flowering vinery around a gold leafy vine framing a central medallion containing a floral bouquet within a narrow gold border with leaves. English needlepoints antique...

Antique Portuguese Botanic Black Yellow Needlework Rug Size: 18'0" × 22'3" (548 × 678 cm) Needlepoint rugs were mainly used as table carp...

Mid-20th century floral needlework rug Size: 9'7" × 10'0" (292 × 304 cm) Needlepoint rugs are universally admired for their elegant patterns and high quality piles. Few contemporary ...

Early 20th century English floral needlework rug Size: 2'10" × 5'9" (86 × 175 cm) This early 20th century needlework rug represents classic English needlepoint craft. It was made by ...

Antique black background Botanic needlework rug Size: 10'6" × 13'7" (320 × 414 cm) A late 19th century needlepoint rug kits, the black field with lush floral bouquets staggered betwe...

Antique English Needlework Carpet: 10'6" x 18'10" - 320 575 cm

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...

Archaeologists and scholars consider the roots of needlepoint to have been around 1500 BC. They consider the first needlepoint to include the fine diagonal stitches that were used to...

An extremely fine English needlepoint rug, representative of the highest quality woven during the Victorian era, decorated by an allover pattern of ivory cartouches containing refine...

A fine English needlework worked in both petit and gros point distinguished by a floral spray on a black background, contained within a reserve defined by ribbon-like, stylised acant...

Spectacular Large Antique French Savonnerie Carpet, Country of origin: France, Circa date: 1820