Savonnerie rug...........
The Savonnerie manufactory was the most prestigious European manufactory of knotted-pile carpets, enjoying its 
greatest period c. 1650–1685; the cachet of its name is casually applied to many knotted-pile carpets made at other centers. 
The manufactory had its immediate origins in a carpet manufactory established in a former soap factory (French savon) on the 
Quai de Chaillot downstream of Paris in 1615 by Pierre DuPont, who was returning from the Levant. Under a patent (privilège) of eighteen years, a monopoly was granted by Louis XIII in 1627 to DuPont and his former apprentice 
Simon Lourdet, makers of carpets façon de Turquie ("in the manner of Turkey"). Until 1768, the products of the manufactory 
remained exclusively the property of the Crown, and Savonnerie carpets were among the grandest of French diplomatic gifts.