10'3" x 13'9" Peshawar Ziegler Rug | Rust & Coral All Over Floral | Hand-Knotted Natural Wool, New

This is a big, calm, room-filling floor piece: 10'3" x 13'9" of hand-knotted natural wool woven in Peshawar, Pakistan, in the Ziegler manner, with a soft rust field, coral and ivory palmettes, and a wide pale gold border. The drawing is deliberately large in scale and gently spaced, which is exactly why this style of Oriental rug sits so easily under modern furniture instead of competing with it. The wool is hand-spun, so it takes dye unevenly in the best way and gives the surface that dry, low-sheen, slightly sun-softened look you normally wait decades to see. It is brand new, has never been on a floor, and ships with a certificate of authenticity confirming it is genuinely hand-knotted.

Design and Motifs

The field carries a full all over design rather than a central medallion: broad lotus palmettes, split arabesque leaves and long curling serrated leaves linked by a thin vine that travels corner to corner without ever closing into a rigid grid. Down the center axis sit two shield-shaped green rosettes, the darkest accents in the whole rug, and they anchor the composition the way a medallion would without interrupting the repeat. The palmettes alternate between ivory-outlined blossoms with coral hearts and softer peach flower heads, drawn large enough to stay legible from standing height. The main border is a wide ivory gold band of alternating palmettes and angular leaf clusters, flanked by narrow guard stripes of rust vine and tiny green leaf ticks, with a plain rust outer stripe that frames the whole piece cleanly against a wood or stone floor.

A Rust Field with Coral, Ivory and Olive Green

The palette is warm and low-contrast. The ground is a terracotta rust that shifts subtly from brick to a softer clay tone across the width, the natural result of hand-spun yarn taking vegetable-toned dye in small batches. Over it, the florals run from pale coral and salmon to buttery peach, with ivory outlining that lifts the larger blossoms away from the field. The border is a pale gold ivory that reads almost sand in daylight, and it widens the room visually by keeping the perimeter light. Olive and moss green appear only in the two central rosettes, in the small leaf ticks along the guard stripes and in the border palmette hearts, so the green functions as punctuation rather than a third major color. Practically, this is a forgiving floor: the rust ground hides traffic, and the soft coral and ivory keep the rug from feeling heavy in a bright room.

Woven in Peshawar, Pakistan

Peshawar, in northwest Pakistan, is today one of the most reliable sources of hand-knotted work in the classic Ziegler idiom, and the workshops there built their reputation on hand-spun wool, natural dye recipes and a patient, softly washed finish. The back of this rug, visible in the folded corner photo, shows an even knot line with no pull or waviness, and the selvages and ends are tightly finished. The pile is full and dense underfoot, cut at a medium height that keeps the drawing crisp while still feeling plush, and the wool has the springy handle that comes from good mountain fleece rather than machine-spun yarn. At 10'3" x 13'9" it belongs with the genuinely large pieces, so if you are comparing options in this footprint, our full run of 10x14 hand-knotted rugs is the right place to measure it against.