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From: Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK)
Date: 20060909
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Readers of our midweek series on collecting may recall the piece on Aubusson carpets earlier in the year and the support Louis XIV gave to the rug-making industry of France. There the craft of carpet weaving was regarded as an art form and the favoured Aubusson region had sole manufacturing rights in the late 16th century under the protection of Le Roi Soleil (the Sun King).

The industry flourished making pictorial carpets with no pile, and had a free hand when invited to furnish many stately houses, which included the re-modelling of an insignificant villa just outside Paris. The lavish ...

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