12' x 18' Chobi Peshawar Oriental Rug | Ziegler All-Over Floral | Handspun Ivory & Sage Wool

This is a big, quiet, confident room rug. At 12' x 18' it covers a full great room or a long formal dining space, and because the field is ivory rather than red it makes the room feel larger instead of heavier. The drawing is the classic Ziegler formula that Peshawar workshops have refined over the last thirty years: an all-over lattice of leafy vines carrying oversized palmettes and rosettes, no central medallion, so the pattern reads the same from every seat and takes furniture without losing its structure. The pile is handspun wool with the slight tonal variation, the abrash, that only hand-spun yarn gives, and the rug has been finished with the soft antique wash that mellows the greens and reds into something that already looks lived with. New, never used, in perfect condition, and shipped with a certificate of authenticity that records the weave, the materials and the measurements. Buyers shopping oversize 12 x 18 rugs should know this size is woven on a purpose-built loom and rarely repeated twice in the same palette.

Design and Motifs

The field is a true all-over composition. Thick camel vines curve into large ogival cartouches, and inside each one sits a broad lotus palmette with spiky burgundy petals and a green and taupe heart. Between them the weaver scattered 8 petal rosettes, tulip heads, serrated leaves and small paired buds, so the ground is never empty but never crowded either. The vertical axis is marked by a repeating column of tall palmettes that gives the 18' length its rhythm. Framing all of it is a wide ivory main border of scrolling leaves and medallion rosettes, several of them set on deep wine grounds, flanked by narrow guard stripes of brown and cream boteh-like leaf forms. The finished effect is the all-over floral rug at its most usable: formal drawing, informal color.

A Palette of Ivory, Beige and Sage Green

The ground is ivory moving through cream into warm sand, and the handspun yarn keeps that ground alive rather than flat, with faint horizontal bands of lighter and deeper beige running across the field. Over it the vinework is drawn in camel and soft taupe brown, with leaves in a dusty sage green that in some lights reads closer to celadon. The accent color is a deep burgundy wine red, used sparingly in petal tips, small rosette centers and a handful of border cartouches, and it is what keeps the rug from going bland. Ivory highlights pick out individual blossoms, and the border repeats the same family of tones one shade deeper so the frame separates cleanly from the field. Against dark hardwood the rug reads pale and luminous; against a pale floor it settles into the warm end of beige and ivory rugs and behaves as a neutral.

Woven in Peshawar, Pakistan

Peshawar in northwest Pakistan is where the Chobi and Ziegler tradition now lives. The workshops there spin their own wool by hand, dye it in small lots with natural and low-impact dyes, knot on a cotton foundation and then wash the finished rug to soften the color, which is why a new Peshawar piece already has the tone of an old Sultanabad. Knot count on this weave is a medium-fine village-standard density, chosen deliberately: heavier than a fine city weave, which is exactly what an Oriental rug of this footprint needs to lie flat and survive traffic for decades. Weaving a piece this size takes a team on a single wide loom well over a year, and few looms in Peshawar are set up for it, which is why genuine handmade oversized rugs in a light palette turn up far less often than 9x12s. The selvedges are tight, the fringe is the warp itself, and the back shows clean, even knotting across all 12' of width.