10' x 13' Zigler Chobi Oriental Rug | Burgundy All-Over Floral Vine | Natural Wool, Brand New

This 10' x 13' Zigler Chobi is a heavy, honest hand-knotted Oriental rug woven in natural handspun wool on a cotton foundation, with a deep burgundy field, a wide indigo border and soft apricot guard stripes. The wool has the dry lustre that handspun yarn gives, so the field reads darker at one end and lighter at the other as you walk around it, and the pile is thick enough to feel underfoot immediately. It has never been used, the ends and sides are original and tight, and the tag stitched to the back records it as a genuine hand-woven piece. Every rug we ship carries a certificate of authenticity.

Design and Motifs

The field carries a classic all-over floral design rather than a central medallion, which is why a room-size piece like this settles so easily under furniture: there is no single focal point to block with a sofa or a dining table. Thin vine scrolls run corner to corner and carry large open rosettes, serrated leaves, palmettes and small four-petal blossoms, with a pair of tall fan-shaped palmettes anchoring the vertical axis. The drawing is bold and slightly relaxed, in the village manner, so no two rosettes are identical. The main border sets ivory and salmon flower heads with curling vases against indigo, framed by two apricot minor bands of linked rosettes and a narrow blue vine stripe, and the whole thing is finished with plain ivory cotton fringe.

The Burgundy and Indigo Palette

The ground is a deep wine burgundy that sits closer to oxblood in the shade and warms toward brick where the light hits the pile, an effect of handspun wool taking dye unevenly across each strand. Against it the vines are a muted sage to olive green, the rosettes run from pale ivory through wheat to apricot and coral, and small accents of teal and slate blue appear in the leaf tips and blossom centers. The main border is a dark indigo navy, deep enough to look near-black at a distance, which gives the burgundy field a firm outline, while the apricot and buttermilk guard stripes lift the edge and keep the whole rug from reading heavy. Reds, blues, greens and creams in these proportions sit comfortably with wood floors, leather, brass and warm white walls.

Zigler Chobi Weaving in Afghanistan

The Zigler style takes its name from the 19th century trading house that commissioned large-scale floral room rugs for European and American houses, and it survives today because Afghan weavers kept the drawing alive. Chobi, meaning wood, refers to the plant and mineral dye recipes that give these rugs their soft, slightly faded tonality straight off the loom. The wool here is handspun rather than machine spun, which is what produces the abrash in the field, and the knotting is even and tight enough to hold the fine vine lines cleanly from one end of a 13 foot length to the other. For anyone shopping 10 x 13 area rugs, this is the size that covers a full seating group or a dining table with chairs pulled out, and it ships free anywhere in the 50 states.