. Decorative textiles; an illustrated book on coverings for furniture, walls and floors, including damasks, brocades and velvets, tapestries, laces, embroideries, chintzes, cretones, drapery and furniture trimmings, wall papers, carpets and rugs, tooled and illuminated leathers. ^^ in^-a:.: fc^^^^t^a-. \M^ •m Hm > y I ? » 1 » I » ? ?> If 1 > ? ^ ^ ^ y ? . T-^-^ > ? ? ? Ji -ri--fW1J»-: Plate IX—Above, a modern Aiilms^uii tapestry rug designed in America for an ancient Colonial mansion; below, sections of modern Italian Renaissance, and Louis XIV Savonnerie 132 CARPETS AND RUGS SAVON
. Decorative textiles; an illustrated book on coverings for furniture, walls and floors, including damasks, brocades and velvets, tapestries, laces, embroideries, chintzes, cretones, drapery and furniture trimmings, wall papers, carpets and rugs, tooled and illuminated leathers. ^^ in^-a:.: fc^^^^t^a-. \M^ •m Hm > y I ? » 1 » I » ? ?> If 1 > ? ^ ^ ^ y ? . T-^-^ > ? ? ? Ji -ri--fW1J»-: Plate IX—Above, a modern Aiilms^uii tapestry rug designed in America for an ancient Colonial mansion; below, sections of modern Italian Renaissance, and Louis XIV Savonnerie 132 CARPETS AND RUGS SAVONNERIE The finest hand-knotted European pile carpets arc tlie Frenclisnvonneries (Plates I and II) that get their name from the soap-works (Savon is French for soap) at Cliaillot in Paris, where theindustry was established three centiu-ies ago by Pierre Dupont andSimon Lourdet. The story of the foundation is told in DupontsStromatourglc on dc VEdccUciicc dc la manufacture tapis dits deTiirfjiiic, pul)lished in Paris in KiJVJ. Dupont liad in 1004 been estal)lished in the I^ouvre by Henri IV,and Lourdet was his pupil. Duponts success on a small scale hadbeen of such an encouraging natiu-e tliat it was promptly decided toincrease the size of the plant largely, but the d
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