17'9" x 17'11" Oversize Square Ziegler Chobi Rug | Light Green All Over Floral | Hand-Knotted Natural Wool

A true square at 17'9" x 17'11", this hand-knotted Ziegler Chobi is the kind of piece you order for a room that has defeated every rectangle you tried in it. The field is a soft light green carrying a gentle abrash, drawn with an unhurried all over floral pattern in gold, apricot and ivory, and framed by a wide beige and gold border. The wool is handspun and takes light the way only natural fleece does, shifting from pale celadon to warm olive as you walk around it. Square weavings of this scale are genuinely uncommon, since most looms of this width are dressed for long rectangles, which puts this rug into the narrow band of oversize square rugs available at any given moment. It is brand new and has never been on a floor, and it ships with a certificate of authenticity confirming that it is hand-knotted.

Design and Motifs

There is no central medallion here. The drawing is a repeating all over floral design built from broad lobed palmettes, 8 petal rosettes, long serrated leaves and curling sickle leaves, all tied together by a thin vine that wanders across the whole field. Small star flowers and tiny buds fill the spaces between the larger blossoms so the green ground never looks empty, and because the layout repeats rather than centers, the pattern reads correctly from every side of the room, which matters enormously in a square. The main border carries alternating rust outlined cartouche palmettes and cupped leaf forms on a beige ground, and it is flanked on both sides by reciprocal guard stripes of small blocky geometric figures. The corners are resolved cleanly, with the border turning without breaking the rhythm of the motifs, and a narrow plain green outer band finishes the edge before the ivory fringe.

A Light Green Field with Beige, Gold and Brown

The field is a pale sage green with a faint olive cast, striated with the soft horizontal abrash that comes from handspun yarn dyed in small lots, so the ground breathes rather than sitting flat. Against it the flowers are worked in wheat gold, apricot and clotted cream, outlined in a dry cocoa brown that gives every leaf and petal its edge. Quiet grey blue appears inside the palmette centers and in the leaf tips, and a very small amount of deep rust red is used with real discipline, just a dot in the heart of a rosette or a thin outline around a border cartouche, which is what keeps the whole palette calm. The border shifts the balance to warm sand and gold with pale green blocks in the guard stripes, so the two halves of the rug read as one family of tones. Buyers hunting green area rugs that stay neutral rather than shouting will find this one sits easily with cream upholstery, walnut furniture and natural oak floors.

Ziegler Chobi Weaving in Pakistan

The Ziegler style dates to the 1880s, when a European trading house commissioned village looms to loosen the classical drawing and soften the palette for Western interiors. That design language is kept alive today in the Peshawar region of Pakistan, where the Chobi tradition means handspun wool, natural dye recipes and a gentle wash that mellows the colors before the rug ever leaves the workshop. This is serious hand work: two weavers or more at a single loom of this width, month after month, with the pile clipped medium so the wool keeps body underfoot. The back, visible in the fold shot, shows even knotting and crisp definition of the motifs right through to the foundation, and the selvages and fringe are original and untouched. If you are weighing this against a Persian piece, our guide to what separates a Persian from an Oriental rug explains where the real differences lie, in weave, wool and drawing rather than in labels.