View of the Savonnerie carpet manufactory site, Paris
1655
A 1655 engraving by Israël Silvestre showing the site on the Seine at Chaillot where the royal Savonnerie carpet manufactory operated, the earliest visual record in this set of the building where France's most famous knotted-pile carpets were made.
Source: gallica.bnf.fr
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