From the early 17th century, orientalizing styles are superseded by carpets from the Savonnerie Workshops and in the 18th century, by those of Aubusson and Beauvais.

As status symbols and statements of good taste, these carpets are for the privileged kings and gentry but they spread throughout Europe and the West : Spain in the Golden Age, Great Britain and its Moorfields, Exeter and Axminster carpets, America, Eastern Europe, Ireland, Scotland, Austria, the Netherlands and its Deventer workshops, Tournai in Belgium, etc. Or, in the last two centuries, designs by William Morris - Walter Grane - Charles Mackintosh - V. Horta - J. Olbrich - F.L. Wright - Sonia Delaunay - Picasso - Starck - Hockney - Harding.

Towards the end of the 20th century, the Aubusson workshops, the last great manufacturers, experience ever greater difficulty producing and, more so even, selling the last Savonneries, as the cost of labour in the West has priced them out of the market.
The last entrepreneurs "burn their boats" by setting up shop where labour is plentiful, qualified, inexpensive and skilled in the way of old.

Very few would succeed... indeed, only those who already had the know-how in Aubusson and who settled in the very area where the most amazing textiles of the ancient world had been in production for quite sometime already and enduring legacy of the masters of silk.

Some Savonneries, as beautiful as the last ones made in Europe, are from one of those workshops !
Alchemy! Truly this is alchemy! Or, to put in the words of one of our silent partners: "The ransom of folly".
Indeed. But one might also say, approximating Guillaumet, the flying ace: "What we have done, only beasts could have done". Thus spoke these hardy enthusiasts who, without depriving France of a single hour's worth of work, reklindled a French tradition, availing themselves of favorable circumstances. But for how long?