12' x 17'9" Chobi Peshawar Oriental Rug | Ziegler All Over Floral Design | Light Blue Field | New

This is a genuinely large piece of hand-knotted work: 12 feet wide and close to 18 feet long, woven in natural wool on a cotton foundation and finished in the quiet, sun-washed palette that made the Chobi Ziegler style collectible in the first place. The field is a soft light blue, the main border a wide band of warm beige, and the drawing in between is carried in ivory, peach, camel and a few deliberate strokes of dark brown. It has never been on a floor, the pile is full and even edge to edge, and the handle is supple rather than stiff, which tells you the wool was hand-spun and washed properly. Every rug we sell ships with a certificate of authenticity, and this one is large enough to define a room rather than sit inside one. Buyers working at this scale can compare it against our other 12x18 oversize rugs before deciding.

Design and Motifs

There is no medallion here. The field carries an all over composition of open palmettes, 8 petal rosettes, serrated acanthus leaves and small budding vines, spaced generously so the ground color stays visible and the pattern never crowds itself. The vine work that connects the blossoms is drawn very lightly, almost tonally, so from standing height you read texture and rhythm first and individual flowers second. That restraint is what separates a well drawn Ziegler layout from a busy one. The border system runs to 5 bands: a wide beige main band filled with large palmettes and curling brown leaf forms, flanked by narrow reciprocal guard stripes of small trefoils and rosettes, all contained by thin rust outlines that keep the frame crisp against the pale field. The corners resolve cleanly, the inner guard stripe turns without breaking the pattern, and the outer selvage returns to the same soft blue as the field, which visually pulls the whole 12' x 17'9" surface back together.

A Light Blue Field With Beige and Brown Drawing

The ground is a gentle light blue with a faint sage cast, the kind of tone that reads blue in daylight and closer to soft grey-green under lamps, and it shifts subtly across the width because the wool was dyed in small lots. That gentle striation, visible in the close-up photographs, is the mark of natural dyeing rather than a flaw. Against it, the floral drawing sits in layered warm neutrals: pale ivory and cream for the larger blossoms, a peach to apricot tone for the leaf outlines and vine scrolls, honey beige across the main border, and a deep walnut brown reserved for accent rosettes and the occasional leaf so the eye has somewhere to land. Small flecks of pale green appear inside the guard stripes and a few border rosettes, adding just enough contrast to stop the palette going flat. The overall effect is calm and low contrast, which is exactly why this coloring works under heavy furniture and in rooms with a lot of natural light.

Chobi Peshawar Weaving From Afghanistan

Chobi takes its name from the word for wood, a reference to the plant and vegetable matter used for the dyes, and the Peshawar quality designation describes the weaving and finishing standard these workshops hold to. This rug is made in Afghanistan by weavers working the Ziegler layout, an all over floral style commissioned by 19th century European importers and still the most requested traditional drawing in the trade. The wool is hand-spun highland fleece, which takes dye unevenly on purpose and gives the finished surface its depth, and the pile is clipped low so the drawing stays sharp. Look at the reverse in the photographs and you will see a tight, regular grid of knots on a cotton warp and weft, the back reading almost as clearly as the front, which is the honest test of any hand-knotted Oriental rug. At this scale a weaving of this quality takes a team many months on the loom, and the payoff is a floor covering that will outlast the room it is bought for.