6'11" x 9'6" Chobi Peshawar Rug | Sky Blue Ziegler All Over Floral | Hand-Knotted Wool, New

This 6'11" x 9'6" Chobi Peshawar is the quiet kind of Oriental rug that does most of its work after you stop looking at it. The field is a soft sky blue, the border a wide ivory band, and the drawing is all calm curves rather than hard geometry. It is hand-knotted knot by knot in wool on a cotton foundation, with a low 5/16" pile that shows the drawing crisply and keeps furniture sitting flat. The rug is new and never used, and it ships with a certificate of authenticity confirming it as a genuine hand-knotted piece.

Design and Motifs

The layout is a classic Ziegler reading of the Sultanabad idiom: no central medallion, just a relaxed all over floral design that repeats across the whole field. Large gold palmettes and open rosettes sit on a thin vine lattice, with pairs of long curled saz leaves sweeping between them like brackets. Small 8 petal rosettes and star forms fill the gaps so the field never reads empty. The main ivory border carries an alternating run of palmettes and serrated leaves, flanked by two narrow guard stripes of tiny repeating flowerheads that frame the field on all 4 sides. The drawing is deliberately loose and slightly irregular, the way village looms draw it, which is exactly what keeps a Ziegler from looking machine-perfect.

The Sky Blue and Ivory Palette

The field is a pale sky blue with a faint grey-green cast, the sort of tone that shifts with the light through the day and picks up an almost seafoam quality under daylight. Against it, the palmettes are worked in warm wheat gold and honey, with softer sand and pale celadon tones inside the leaf forms. Thin outlines of muted rust and terracotta trace the flower centers and leaf tips, giving the pattern definition without heat. The border is a creamy ivory, not a stark white, which lets the blue field read cooler by contrast, and the selvages carry a light blue edge that ties the frame back to the center. Everything here is low contrast and low saturation, so the rug works with pale plaster walls, oak floors, linen upholstery and both cool and warm neutrals.

Peshawar Weaving and the Chobi Tradition

Peshawar in northern Pakistan has become one of the most reliable sources of good hand-knotted wool rugs in the world, and the Chobi Ziegler is its signature product. Chobi means wood, a reference to the plant and wood-based dyes that give these rugs their muted, sun-washed tones from the loom rather than from age. The weavers use hand-spun wool, a cotton warp and weft, and a symmetrical knot beaten firmly enough to give the flat, even back you can see in the detail photo. At 6'11" x 9'6" this falls into the practical 7x10 rug range, wide enough to carry a seating group with the front legs on, and finished with clean ivory fringe at both ends.