AND SAVONNERIE CARPETS. 289 
(September 9, 1824), the fund of 6,000 francs ceased to be paid, and the 
institution fell. M. Chevreul, however, did not cease giving each year 
his course of chemical lectures upon dyeing, and to instruct pupils. 
Under the able direction of M. des B-otours, important improvements 
were produced, viz. : — 
The creation of a special school of tapestry, a tardy realisation of 
the school ordered by the edict of 1667.(a) 
The suppression, by decision of May 4, 1826, of the fabric in basse 
lice which hereditary prepossession had preserved on an equality with 
the fabric in haute lice. 
The suppressed looms were removed to the manufacture at Beauvais, 
and this species of work is applied exclusively to a secondary order of 
tapestry for furniture. 
The union of the manufacture of Savonniere with that of Gobelins 
was taken advantage of to suppress in the manufacture of carpets the 
system of task work, which had been re-established there in 1805. 
These different measures have at this day the complete sanction of 
time and experience ; the governments that follow have especially to 
encourage with all their interest the development of the elements of 
prosperity and of progress united long since in these manufactures. 
Proficiency, it is true, is slow, but sure, in its accomplishment. By draw- 
ing and the study of colours, more and more diffused amongst young 
artists in tapestry'; by the spread and general employment of work 
a deux nuances (a shadowing with light colours upon dark of the same 
kind, or, with dark colours upon lighter), by the complete application 
of such perfect order as will enable each artist to find at the moment 
any colour required in the execution of his work ; and, lastly, by the 
dyeing department being constantly directed in a manner to secure the 
beauty and solidity of the shades, it may be truly said that this art is 
transformed, and no longer recognises any obstacle. 
This account would be incomplete if it did not notice some of the 
finest of the suites of hangings executed in Gobelins tapestry since the 
reign of Louis XIV., the administrators or directors of this manufac- 
ture since the year 1662, the ancient masters of tapestry in haute and 
basse lice to the King, from 1662 to 1792, the period of their suppres- 
sion ; and, lastly, the process of the fabrication of tapestry in haute 
lice and Savonnerie carpets. 
To the reign of Louis XV. belong the following hangings : — 
Sequel to the History of Louis XIV., after Halle, Vernansal, Antoine 
Dieu, Dulin, in six pieces. 
The suite of hangings from Don Quixotte, in twenty-eight pieces, after 
Charles Coypel. 
(a) We must observe, however, that this school had not at that period been 
granted the conditions necessary for permanency, and that it was necessary to 
create it anew in 1848. 
