3'11" x 17'5" Ziegler Wide Runner | Washed Sage Green All-Over Floral | Hand-Knotted Wool, New

This is a genuinely unusual piece of loom work: a hand-knotted wide runner measuring 3'11" x 17'5", almost 4 feet across and just under 18 feet long, drawn in the quiet Ziegler idiom of washed sage green and camel. Most runners are 2'6" to 3' wide, which makes a 47 inch width a special order on the loom and the reason a rug like this is so hard to match to a long hall or gallery. The pile is natural wool, clipped low so the drawing stays crisp, knotted on a cotton foundation, and the piece is brand new and never walked on. A certificate of authenticity ships with every rug we sell, and the original weaver's tags are still attached to the back, as you can see in the final photograph.

Design and Motifs

The field carries a classic Ziegler drawing: a repeating lattice of large open palmettes, split leaves and curling vine that runs the full 17'5" without a medallion to interrupt it. That is what makes this an all-over floral rug rather than a centered composition, and it is the right choice for a corridor, because the pattern reads correctly from either end and can be cut visually by furniture or a doorway without losing its balance. The drawing is deliberately loose and softly outlined, so the palmettes look more like shapes in a faded fresco than tight botanical illustration. The wide main border repeats a turtle palmette and rosette chain in camel, framed by narrow guard stripes of scrolling vine, and the corners resolve cleanly, which is a fair test of a weaver working at this length. Look closely at the detail shots and you will find small 6 petal rosettes and hexagonal cartouches picked out in rust and soft red, the only genuinely warm notes in an otherwise cool composition.

Color

The main color is a washed out green, closer to sage or celadon than to a saturated bottle green, with the natural abrash of hand-spun wool moving the field between a grey-green and a soft olive as the light travels down the runner. Against that sits a broad border of pale camel and honey gold that lifts noticeably in daylight and settles to a warm ivory under lamps. The tracery of vines and palmettes is drawn in gold and buff, outlined here and there in a terracotta rust, and a scattering of small rust-red and dusty rose accents keeps the whole thing from going flat. The fringe and outer selvage are ivory with a thin green edge finish. Taken together it is a low-contrast, dust-toned palette that behaves like a neutral in a room: it will sit comfortably with oak floors, limestone, greige walls, brass, and with both antique furniture and plain modern joinery.

Origin and Weave

This runner was hand-knotted in Pakistan, where the workshops around Lahore and Peshawar have spent the last several decades building a reputation for exactly this kind of work: hand-spun wool, soft natural dye palettes, and careful Ziegler drawing at a level of finish that the commercial market rarely reaches. The weave is even and dense, tied with the asymmetrical knot on a cotton warp and weft, and the low clip is what lets the fine vine work stay legible. As an Oriental rug rather than a machine-made lookalike, every knot here was tied by hand, and a 17'5" length means a single weaver team stayed on one loom for many months without letting the width drift. Check the back photograph and you can see the knot definition and the straight, true selvages that come with that patience.