12' x 17'6" Zigler Chobi Oriental Rug | Beige and Gold All-Over Floral Design | Brand New, Never Used

At 12' x 17'6" this is a true palace piece, a hand-knotted Zigler Chobi woven in Peshawar from handspun, vegetable-dyed wool on a cotton foundation. The field is a soft golden beige carrying an all-over floral system rather than a central medallion, which is exactly why a room of this scale suits it: the pattern keeps working under furniture instead of being swallowed by it. The wool is heavy and full-bodied with a low, even pile, the selvedges are tight, and the rug has never been on a floor. It is one of the few designs that reads equally well as a formal statement and as a quiet neutral, and it belongs to the small group of genuinely oversize 12x18 rugs that are still hand-knotted one knot at a time. Every rug leaves us with a certificate of authenticity.

Design and Motifs

The drawing is an all-over botanical composition built on thin trailing vines that climb the length of the field. Along the center axis sit large serrated palmettes and split-leaf arabesques in rust and brick red, each one anchored by a dark rosette at its heart, with flowering plant forms branching left and right in strict mirror symmetry. Between them the ground is filled with disciplined rows of small quatrefoil flowerheads, some outlined in ivory, some in soft rose, punctuated by tiny cruciform blossoms in deep indigo that give the beige ground its rhythm. The main border carries alternating rust cartouche palmettes and dark shield rosettes joined by a leafy meander, and it is framed by 4 narrow guard stripes of running vine and paired flowerheads. Nothing is crowded: the open beige between the motifs is as much a part of the design as the motifs themselves, which is the hallmark of good Zigler drawing.

Color: Golden Beige, Rust and Antique Ivory

The field is a warm golden beige that shifts between honey and pale camel as the light crosses the pile, with gentle abrash lending the ground a hand-dyed, lightly antiqued depth rather than a flat printed tone. Against it the drawing works in two registers: a muted brick rust used for the palmettes and the large border cartouches, softening to a dusty salmon rose where the wool has taken the dye more lightly, and a very dark charcoal-indigo used sparingly for the small cruciform flowerheads and the shield rosettes in the border. Sage green appears in short sprigs and leaf tips, cool enough to keep the palette from going entirely warm, and antique ivory highlights outline the smaller rosettes and the inner guard stripe. The reverse, seen in the fold-back photograph, shows the same camel and rust register carried cleanly through the knot, confirming vegetable dyes and consistent wool throughout.

Woven in Peshawar: Chobi Quality and the Zigler Tradition

Peshawar is where the best of today's Chobi weaving is done, and the standard here is high: handspun, hand-carded wool, natural dyes, a cotton warp and weft, and a finishing wash that mellows the colors without stripping the pile. Chobi means wood, a reference to the plant-based dyes that give these rugs their muted, lived-in palette from the first day. The Zigler layout itself comes out of the 19th century workshop commissions produced for large Western rooms, drawn deliberately at a generous scale so the pattern stays legible across 200 square feet of floor. A weaving of this footprint takes a team on a single loom for a long stretch, and you can read the discipline in the straight borders, the even selvedges and the consistent knotting visible in the close-up photographs. If you are weighing the differences between weaving traditions before you commit, our guide to what separates an Oriental rug from its neighbors is a useful place to start.