8'1" x 9'7" Zigler Chobi Oriental Rug | Sage Green and Beige All Over Floral | Brand New, Never Used

This 8'1" x 9'7" Zigler Chobi was hand-knotted in the weaving workshops of Pakistan and has never been on a floor. The wool is spun and woven to a low 1/4" pile over a cotton foundation, which is why the drawing stays crisp and the whole piece lies flat and close to the ground, exactly what you want under a coffee table or a dining set. It sits squarely in the 8x10 Oriental rugs range, the most useful room size there is, and the color is about as quiet as a hand-knotted rug gets: pale grayish sage, beige and soft brown with no strong reds or blacks anywhere in it. Every rug we ship carries a certificate of authenticity documenting the weave, materials and origin.

Design and Motifs

There is no central medallion. The field carries a continuous all over pattern built on a loose lattice of curling vine, with large stepped palmettes and 8 petal rosettes anchoring the repeat and smaller serrated leaves and buds filling the spaces between them. The drawing is deliberately soft edged, each motif outlined a shade darker than its own body so the pattern reads as depth rather than contrast. Three bands frame the field: a wide main border of alternating palmettes and scrolling vine, and a narrow guard stripe on each side carrying a small running leaf motif. The corners resolve cleanly, with the border pattern turning rather than being cut off, and the four edges are finished with flat hand-sewn selvages and short ivory fringe at both ends.

A Neutral Palette of Sage, Beige and Soft Brown

The field is a pale grayish sage, closer to a dusty seafoam than a true green, and it shifts very slightly in horizontal bands across the width, the natural abrash that comes from hand-dyed and hand-spun wool. Over that ground the palmettes and vines are drawn in cream, oatmeal and warm beige, with thin soft brown and cocoa outlines giving the motifs their edges. The borders reverse the balance: beige and ivory ground with the floral work picked out in sage and light tan, which is what keeps the frame from reading heavier than the field. Look closely at the ivory areas and you will find occasional faint rust and salmon flecks in the fiber, a characteristic of naturally dyed wool rather than any kind of wear. If you are decorating around greens, this piece belongs with other sage green area rugs, though in practice it behaves like a neutral.

Pakistani Weaving and the Zigler Chobi Tradition

Zigler, often spelled Ziegler, names the open all over style popularized by a 19th century European trading house that commissioned decorative room-size weavings for Western interiors, and Chobi, meaning wooden, refers to the muted wood-toned dye palette this group is known for. Pakistan, and the Peshawar weaving region in particular, is where that style is produced best today: the looms there specialize in hand-spun wool, soft natural dyes and a low clipped pile, and the knotting on the reverse of this piece is even row to row with no pulling at the ends. If you are weighing this against a city workshop piece, our guide to the difference between Persian and Oriental rug weaving explains how the two traditions diverge in drawing and knot density. What this rug offers is a brand new, perfectly clean hand-knotted floor covering in a palette that most antiques simply cannot deliver.