15' x 19' Ziegler Chobi Oriental Rug | Light Blue All Over Floral | Brand New Natural Wool

Laid flat, this piece covers about 285 square feet, which is real palace scale: a great room, a wide formal living room, or an open plan floor where a 9x12 or a 12x15 would float and look undersized. It is hand-knotted in Peshawar from hand-spun wool on a cotton foundation, and the whole surface is given over to one continuous floral vine rather than a central medallion, which is exactly why a rug at 15' x 19' can carry furniture in three separate groupings without the layout fighting the pattern. The wool is soft and slightly lustrous, the drawing is relaxed and decorative, and the piece is brand new and never used. It ships with a certificate of authenticity, and it belongs in the same conversation as the best oversize Oriental rugs we stock.

Design and Motifs

The field is a true all over floral design, built from a lattice of thin curving vines that link large open palmettes, 8 petal rosettes, serrated leaves and small budding sprays. The repeat is drawn loosely rather than mechanically, so no two palmettes read identically, and small curled tendrils fill the spaces between the larger blossoms. Framing it are 5 bands: a wide main border of scrolling palmettes and vine turns, flanked by narrow floral guard stripes and, on the outer edge, a plain blue-grey band that repeats the field color and finishes the rug cleanly against a floor. The corners of the main border resolve properly, with the vine turning into the corner rather than being cut off, which is a mark of a well drawn cartoon. The pile is cut at a medium height, low enough to hold the fine leaf outlines visible in the close-up photographs.

A Soft Light Blue Field with Beige and Sage

The ground is a light slate blue with visible abrash, the gentle horizontal striation you get from hand-spun, hand-dyed wool, which keeps such a large expanse of a single color alive instead of flat. Over it, the floral work runs through beige, cream, camel and a warm soft gold, with sage green shading in the leaves and a light taupe-brown outlining the vines. The main border reverses the balance: a sandy beige ground carrying floral work picked out in the same dusty blue and sage, so the two halves of the rug echo each other. The outer band returns to the blue, and the fringe is natural ivory. It is a quiet, low contrast palette that works with grey, walnut, cream upholstery and brass, and it reads as a neutral in a big room rather than as a statement of color.

Woven in Peshawar in the Ziegler Tradition

Peshawar in northern Pakistan is where much of the world's best decorative hand-knotted weaving is now done, and the Ziegler Chobi group is its signature product: hand-spun wool, softened natural-looking tones, and large scale floral cartoons in the manner of the 19th century Ziegler workshops that supplied grand Western interiors. Chobi weavers work on wide looms built for exactly this kind of room-filling commission, and a 15 by 19 foot piece is months of work for a team of knotters, with the tension held even enough across 180 inches of width that the rug lies flat and square, as the corner and back photographs show. If you are weighing how this kind of piece compares with other origins, our guide to what defines an Oriental rug explains where each weaving group sits. This one is new, unused and in perfect condition, with full pile and clean, tightly overcast selvages.