10'2" x 13'2" Ziegler Chobi Rug | Transitional Navy Lattice with Gold Floral Border | Signed, New

A new, never used hand-knotted piece in a room size that sells itself: 10'2" x 13'2" covers a seating group with furniture on the rug and still leaves a border of floor showing. The field is deep navy, drawn as a diamond lattice in camel and ivory, and the whole thing is framed by a wide camel gold border that lifts the blue rather than competing with it. The pile is fine silky Ghazni wool, hand-spun and naturally dyed, so the surface reads slightly different from every angle, which is exactly what you see in the close-up photographs. The weaver signed the rust inner border with a small woven cartouche, visible in one of the detail images. Every rug we ship carries our certificate of authenticity. If you are shopping the 10x13 size range, this is one of the calmer, more architectural options in it.

Design and Motifs

The navy field is divided by a double diagonal lattice, two slightly irregular hand-drawn lines crossing in camel, ivory and rust, with a small square rosette at each crossing point. Inside the diamonds the weaver alternated three motifs: a broad gold palmette shaped like a spade, a flowering shrub with 3 salmon rosettes on sage green stems, and a fine cypress-like sprig that fills the narrow compartments. The rhythm repeats but never lines up perfectly, which is the signature of an Oriental rug drawn on the loom rather than copied square by square. The field is closed by a crenellated ivory and navy band, then the main camel border carries 8 petal rosettes set in rust cartouches linked by an angular vine, with a rust and gold scrolling leaf guard stripe on either side and a plain navy outer edge. It is an all over design with real border architecture, so it holds a large room without needing a central medallion.

Navy, Camel Gold and Rust: the Color Reading

The field is a true indigo navy, dark enough to read almost black in shadow and clearly blue where light hits the pile, with the faint horizontal variation of hand-spun yarn running through it. Against that sit two different yellows: a warm camel gold in the lattice and the border ground, and a brighter saffron gold in the palmettes and leaf scrolls. The rust is a soft brick tone, used for the guard stripes, the cartouches around the rosettes and the outlines of the lattice, never as a flat block. Accent colors are small and deliberate: salmon pink rosette petals with rust centers, sage and olive green stems and leaves, ivory for the crenellated inner band and the palmette outlines, and a pale smoky blue that appears only inside the border rosettes. Nothing in the palette is harsh, because every color is a natural dye on hand-spun wool, so the whole rug sits comfortably with navy, cream, walnut and leather furnishings. Browse more navy and blue rugs if that is the direction of the room.

Ziegler Chobi Weaving in Pakistan

Ziegler Chobi is a modern workshop tradition built on the 19th century Ziegler and Co. commissions, when European firms had village looms weave open, softly colored versions of classical Sultanabad drawing for Western rooms. Today the best of that work comes off looms in Pakistan, where weavers use chobi (wood) dyes drawn from plants and minerals rather than synthetics, and buy their wool from the Ghazni highlands. Ghazni fleece is the reason this rug feels the way it does: long staple, high lanolin content, and a natural sheen that survives hand-spinning and washing. The knotting here is even and tight for a village weave, the lattice lines stay straight across 10 feet of width, and the selvages and ivory cotton fringe are finished cleanly, as the corner photographs show. The rug was given a light wash to settle the colors, has never been used, and the pile is full across the whole surface with no low spots or repairs.