8'1" x 9'2" Chobi Peshawar Ziglar Rug | Beige & Teal Green Greek Key Fretwork | Brand New

This 8'1" x 9'2" Chobi Peshawar Ziglar rug is a near-square piece, only 13 inches longer than it is wide, which makes it unusually easy to place in a room that is not a clean rectangle. The whole thing is drawn in two tones: a sand-beige ground of hand-spun wool and a soft teal green outline that carries every motif. The pile is cut low at 1/4 inch, so the fretwork reads crisp and graphic rather than plush, and the weave shows clearly on the reverse in the folded-back corner photographs. It is brand new and never used, with a perfect, even face and full ivory warp fringe at both ends. As a quiet, low-contrast Oriental rug, it works where a red and navy medallion piece would take over the room. Every rug we ship leaves Freeport with its certificate of authenticity.

Design and Motifs

The field is built as a repeating grid of panels rather than around a single medallion, an all-over design that gives furniture freedom to sit anywhere on it. Each panel is framed by interlocking Greek key fretwork, the squared meander bands that loop and turn back on themselves, and at the center of every panel sits an 8 petal rosette with 4 arrow-tipped leaves pushing out to the corners. Where the panels meet, small stepped diamond lozenges float on open ground, and you can see them isolated in the close-up shots as pointed shield shapes outlined in teal. The border system runs 5 bands deep: a narrow key fret guard against the field, a zigzag stripe, a wide main band of paired S-scrolls alternating with 6 point stars, a second zigzag, and an outer row of small leaf-and-boteh sprigs separated by diagonal dashes. Solid teal triangles mark all 4 corners on the outermost band, a village-style flourish that keeps the drawing from feeling machine-regular.

Beige and Teal Green, and Nothing Else

The palette is deliberately narrow. The ground is a warm sand beige that shifts subtly from panel to panel as the hand-spun wool takes dye unevenly, lighter and creamier toward the center in the daylight photographs, a touch deeper along the borders. Against it, a single soft teal green does all the drawing, somewhere between sea green and dusty aqua, laid down as fine 1 and 2 knot outlines so the motifs look drawn with a pen rather than blocked in. The only heavier saturation appears in the corner triangles and the diagonal dashes of the outer band, where the teal reads clearer and cooler. There is no red, no navy, no black, and the fringe and side finish stay ivory. For anyone shopping the beige and ivory rugs for a pale oak floor, grey tile, or a room already carrying strong art, this is the tonal end of the spectrum, decoration without noise.

Peshawar Weaving and the Chobi Ziglar Tradition

Peshawar, in northwest Pakistan, is where the Chobi Ziglar weave has been refined over the last few decades, and it is honest, high-quality hand work. Chobi refers to the wood and plant sources behind the muted, low-contrast dye palette, and the Ziglar name traces back to the 19th century Ziegler firm, which had classic Eastern designs redrawn in softer colorways for Western interiors. This piece follows that logic with a key-fret and rosette layout closer to old Khotan and Samarkand drawing than to floral vine work. The construction is straightforward and durable: a cotton foundation, hand-spun wool pile clipped to 1/4 inch, tight and regular knotting visible on the reverse, and hand-overcast sides finished in the same undyed wool. The near-square 8'1" x 9'2" format is scarce, which is what makes it useful, and among Oriental rugs in this price band the low pile also means it clears a door swing and sits flat under a dining chair without a fight.