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Aubusson Rugs and Aubusson Carpets

AUBUSSON CARPETS  
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AUBUSSON ROUND CARPETS  
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AUBUSSON RUGS  
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SAVONNERIE RUGS  
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A History of Aubusson Rugs
The word Aubusson is as pretty as the severe but leafy little town of that name, Aubusson, 200 miles from Paris on the river Creuse. The river’s pure waters were used for washing the wool that the people of Aubusson and the neighboring villages wove into the tapestries and rugs which made the region’s reputation in the 18th century.

In the 13th century, French knights, returning from the crusades, brought with them oriental rugs that they called Tapis Sarrasinois after their Saracen foe. Other Turkish style rugs continued to find their way West, but at the being of the century, they were still expensive rarities. That’s why in 1608, Henry IV formally commissioned a weaver named Pierre Dupont, who claimed to have discovered how to make rugs a la facon de perse et du levant, to set up shop in the louvre. So satisfied was Henry with Duponts rugs that before his death in 1610, he decreed that the output of the louvre atelier was to be reserved exclusively for the royal family. His son, Louis XIII, was only nine when his father died, but in 1627, at the age of 26, he instructed dupont to open up a new shop at the Savonnerie, a former soapworks factory (“Savon” meaning “soap”).

In 1672, the louvre ateliers were transferred to the savonnerie. Nearly a century later, in 1743, Aubusson began turning out Savonnerie carpets as soon as the exclusive rights of the royal family to such carpets were rescinded – and the import of real Orientals forbidden.

Orry de fulvy, General Controller of finances, noted that for an equivalent surface, an aubusson contained less knots than a savonnerie. This meant that deep-pile Aubussons cost less. Now a whole new market for rugs was opening - for lighter-weight, more affordable ones, to furnish the new and fashionable, appartments of the petty nobility and expanding upper middle classes. Rugs - flat woven like the tapestries - were the answer, and the first flat-weave Aubussons appeared in about 1768