13'7" x 18'11" Oversize Ziegler Chobi Rug | Light Green All-Over Vine Field | Hand-Knotted Ghazni Wool, Brand New

At 13'7" x 18'11" this is a genuine palace piece, the kind of oversize hand-knotted rug that finishes a great room instead of floating in the middle of it. It is brand new and never used, hand-knotted one knot at a time in hand-spun Ghazni wool on a cotton foundation, with a soft light green field, a wide camel and beige border, and a quiet all-over drawing that never fights with furniture. The wool has a low sheen and a gentle abrash that shifts from pale sage to a warmer olive as you cross the field, which is exactly what hand-spun yarn and small dye lots do. Every rug we ship carries a certificate of authenticity confirming that it is handmade, along with its size, materials and origin.

Design and Motifs

There is no central medallion here. The field carries an all-over floral repeat built from open palmettes, 8 petal rosettes, serrated acanthus leaves and thin curling vines that link one blossom to the next, drawn in the relaxed Ziegler manner rather than the tight court style. Because the repeat runs edge to edge, the rug reads calmly from any direction and takes a large seating group or a long dining table without losing its pattern under the furniture. The border system is layered: a broad main band of paired palmettes and vase-like cartouches, flanked by 2 narrow floral guard stripes on each side and a slender outer band, with the 4 corners resolved cleanly rather than cut off mid-motif. Small brick red outlines and slate blue leaf tips punctuate the drawing and keep the neutral scheme from going flat.

A Study in Light Green, Olive and Camel

The field is a pale celadon green, cool rather than minty, with fine horizontal striations where each new batch of hand-spun yarn entered the loom. Against it the ornament is worked in wheat gold, honey, soft camel and ivory, with mushroom brown leaves and a few olive stems giving the drawing weight. The main border steps warmer into a sandy beige and tan, so the green field appears to float inside a frame of light caramel, and a thin sage stripe at the outer edge ties the two together. Accents are used sparingly: small brick red flower centers, dusty blue rosette cores and the occasional cream highlight. It is a genuinely quiet palette that sits well with oak, walnut, linen and plaster, and it is one of the easier ways to introduce green area rugs into a neutral room without committing to a strong color.

Woven in Peshawar, Pakistan

Peshawar is where the Ziegler Chobi tradition is kept alive today, and this is a good example of why that work is respected: highland Ghazni wool, hand-spun so the yarn takes dye unevenly and gives the surface life, natural and low-impact dyes, and a firm, even knot across nearly 260 square feet of weaving. The back view shows a regular, well-packed weave with straight rows and crisp motif outlines, and the selvedges and fringes are finished tightly, which matters on a rug this heavy. If you are weighing this against other origins, it helps to understand where the term Oriental rug actually begins and ends. Weighing well over 100 lbs, a piece this size normally attracts a freight surcharge; here it ships free to all 50 states.