15'4" x 20'10" Ziglar Oriental Rug | Sage Green All Over Floral | Fine Ghazni Wool, Palace Size

At 15'4" x 20'10" this Ziglar is a genuine palace piece, wide enough to hold a 12 seat dining table with the chairs pulled back and long enough to floor an entire great room without a seam or a second rug. It is hand-knotted in fine natural Ghazni wool, a long-staple fleece that takes soft dye beautifully and gives the pile the faint silky sheen visible in the close-up photographs. The field is a quiet sage green carried edge to edge by an all over floral drawing in ivory, brick red and camel. Rugs this large are usually a freight problem; here they are not, and pieces in the oversize rug range ship free to all 50 states. Every rug leaves us with a certificate of authenticity.

Design and Motifs

The field runs an all over floral design with no medallion, which is exactly what you want at this scale: furniture can sit anywhere on it without breaking the composition. Ivory vines scroll in long diagonals and link three repeating flower types, a broad 8 petal rosette in cream and grey blue, a serrated red sunburst palmette, and a small lotus bud that fills the gaps between them. Look at the detail shots and you will see the drawing is not mechanical, the red palmettes shift slightly in size and petal count from row to row, the mark of hand drawing rather than a stamped repeat. The main border sits on an ivory ground with a rosette and leaf meander, flanked by narrow camel and grey guard stripes and an outer band of small triangular blossoms. All 4 corners are resolved cleanly, with the border turn worked out rather than cut off, which on a rug 20'10" long is a real test of the weaver's cartoon work.

The Sage Green, Ivory and Brick Red Palette

Sage green is the anchor, a muted grey-leaning green with a warm camel undertone where the light catches the pile, and it moves gently across the field in the soft horizontal banding that hand-spun yarn always produces. Against it the drawing works in three registers: ivory and oatmeal cream for the vines and the larger rosettes, brick red for the sunburst palmettes and the small dots that punctuate the vine work, and a pale grey blue that appears inside the rosette centers and cools the whole thing down. Camel and honey gold carry the border ground and the guard stripes, so the perimeter reads lighter and lifts the field. Nothing here is loud. The reds are dusty rather than fire engine, the greens are dried herb rather than emerald, and the overall effect is a large neutral floor that will sit comfortably with oak, walnut, linen and plaster without competing for attention.

Ghazni Wool and the Ziglar Weaving Tradition

Ziglar rugs are woven today by workshops in Pakistan that specialize in the softened, low-contrast reading of the classic 19th century Ziegler floral cartoons, and the best of them buy their wool from Ghazni in Afghanistan. That fleece is the reason the rug looks the way it does: long staple, high lanolin, hand-spun so the yarn varies slightly in thickness, and it accepts natural and low-saturation dyes without going flat. The back photograph shows an even, tight knot across the full width with straight, disciplined rows, and the pile is cut low enough that the drawing stays crisp. This is where the practical difference between Persian and Oriental rugs matters to a buyer: a piece 15'4" x 20'10" made on a court-quality Persian loom would be a museum-budget commission, while a Ghazni wool Ziglar gives you the same hand-knotted construction and a palette built for modern rooms at a price that makes sense for a floor this size.