10' x 14'8" Ziegler Oriental Rug | Antique Red All-Over Floral | Natural Wool, Brand New

A big, quiet room rug: the 10' x 14'8" field is an antique red, dusty rather than bright, and it carries a slow all-over vine of cream and gold blossoms inside a wide ivory border. It is brand new and has never been on a floor, hand-knotted in natural wool on a cotton foundation, with a soft handle you can see in the rolled edge photographs. At 120 inches by 176 inches it covers a full seating group or a 10 seat dining table with chairs pulled back, and it ships with a certificate of authenticity from us as the direct importer.

Design and Motifs

The field is a true all-over floral design with no central medallion. Large serrated palmettes and full cream rosettes repeat along a curving vine that travels corner to corner, and between the big blossoms sit smaller lotus heads, curled leaves and 4 petal buds, each one outlined in cream so the drawing stays readable against the dark ground. The wide main border alternates 2 motifs: a squared gold rosette cartouche and a fan shaped palmette flanked by deep red buds, fenced on both sides by narrow guard stripes of red trefoil sprigs and a running vine. Because the pattern repeats instead of centering, a sofa, a coffee table or a dining table set on top of it hides nothing that matters, which is the practical reason this drawing keeps its popularity in room sizes this large.

Color: Antique Red, Beige and Gold

The ground is an antique brick red, closer to madder than to cherry, and it shifts subtly across the width the way wool dyed in small batches always does. Working against it are three color families: warm ivory and cream for the outlines and the largest rosettes, a golden apricot in the palmette centers and in scattered leaves, and a muted sage green that appears in single leaves and short stems often enough to cool the whole surface. The main border is a pale wheat beige, lighter than anything inside the field, so the rug frames itself and reads wider than its footprint, while deep red trefoils along the guard stripes stitch border and field together. Buyers cross shopping red and burgundy area rugs will find this one of the softer, more livable reds, easy with walnut, oak and cream upholstery.

Woven in Pakistan: The Ziegler Tradition

This piece was hand-knotted in Pakistan, where the best Ziegler weaving is done today by workshops that have specialized in this one style for decades. The Ziegler name goes back to a 19th century trading house that commissioned large, open floral rugs scaled and colored specifically for Western rooms, and the modern weavers kept the formula intact: generous drawing, a soft washed palette, and a repeat that reads calmly from across a room rather than shouting from the middle of it. Quality here shows in the handling rather than in a record knot count. The pile is dense and evenly clipped, the selvedges are straight and wrapped in red, and the fringe is hand-tied from the warps, all visible in the close photographs. If you are weighing this against other options, our guide to what separates a Persian from an Oriental rug is worth reading, and you can see what else we hold in the 10 x 14 rug size before you decide.