Savonnerie Design Wool Carpet Vintage Rug Number: 70001429

Rug Number: 70001429

Design: Persian Kirman Carpet

The knots were often symmetric

Designers frequently created coordinated interiors -- almost like set designs -- with rugs

Style: Antique Persian Tabriz Wool Carpet

Savonnerie Design Wool Carpet Vintage Rug Number: 70001429French carpet production, encouraged by Henry IV, used Turkish rugs as a template. Later, rugs, known as Savonnerie, after the soap factory outside of Paris where they were produced, drew on Dutch and Flemish paintings and textiles for inspiration and contained floral and military motifs. Rug production also began in Aubusson in the mid 1700s, and other cities as well, but the golden age came to an end with the start of the French Revolution. Several