Antique Savonnerie Handmade Golderod Wool Rug with Allover Floral Motif

Beautiful vintage Spanish hand-knotted wool rug with the beige field. This Spanish rug has tan, yellow, and orange accents in an all-over geometric floral pattern design. This ru...

Beautiful antique Persian Mahal hand-knotted wool rug with a rusted field. This piece has a blue frame and multicolor accents in an all-over gorgeous geometric floral design. This r...

Beautiful antique Tabriz hand-knotted wool rug with a blue field. This Persian rug has multicolor accents in a gorgeous all-over floral design. This rug measures: 9'9" x 12'2". ...

Beautiful antique Kerman hand-knotted wool rug with a beige and rose field. This Persian rug has a designed frame and multicolor accents in a gorgeous all-over rosette pattern design...

Beautiful antique Malayer hand-knotted wool rug with a blue field. This Persian piece has a gray frame with yellow, beige, and brown accents in a gorgeous all-over floral design. ...

Beautiful antique Kerman hand-knotted wool rug with a beige field. This Persian rug has multicolor accents in a gorgeous all-over garden floral design. This rug measures: 17'4" x ...

1800s French Savonnerie Floral Brown, Green Hand Knotted Wool Rug Size: 8'6" × 10'0" (259 × 304 cm) A late 19th century French Savonnerie Aubusson rugs...

Oversized Savonnerie Antique Beige Handmade Wool Rug Size: 15'0" × 19'9" (457 × 601 cm) Savonnerie was the most prestigious European manufactory of knotted-pile French Savonnerie carpets. Primarily its style broadly imitated Persian models but soon settled into more purely French designs, pictorial or armorial framed medallions, densely massed flowers in bouquets or leafy rinceaux against deep blue, black or deep brown grounds, within multiple borders. The oversized area rugs...

This European Savonnerie Rug has been hand-knotted in late 19th century in France. Owned by Coca-Cola magnate Robert W. Woodruff between 1948 until the late 1980s at his Windcrofte e...

Authentic Savonnerie Handmade Wool Rug Size: 24'0" × 29'10" (731 × 909 cm) This turn of the century antique French Savonnerie rug features an oval central medallion outlined in dark ...

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...

An antique European Savonnerie carpet from the turn of the 19th century; signed "Gavino Stuvok" and dated "1805." Savonnerie rugs were created in the 17th century and originated ...