8'2" x 9'9" Chobi Ziegler Rug | Honey Gold All-Over Floral Field | New Natural Wool Pile

This is a new, never used 8'2" x 9'9" Chobi Ziegler hand-knotted in natural wool on a cotton foundation, and it is the kind of warm, quiet Oriental rug that settles a room instead of competing with it. The pile is clipped low, about 1/4 inch, so the drawing reads crisply and the rug sits flat under furniture without bulk. At roughly 8 feet by 10 feet it covers a standard seating group or a 6 seat dining table with chairs pulled clear, which is why buyers searching 8x10 area rugs land here so often. Every rug we ship carries a certificate of authenticity confirming it is genuinely hand-knotted, with its size, materials and origin documented.

Design and Motifs

The drawing is a classic Ziegler reading of the Sultanabad idiom: an all-over floral lattice with no central medallion, so the pattern repeats calmly in every direction and the rug can be turned or re-oriented at will. Large round rosettes anchor the field, each one built from a taupe disc filled with small 8 petal flower heads and ringed by a jagged rust outline, with a crown-like cresting above and a pair of thin curving stems trailing below. Between them sit broad shield-shaped palmettes, angular cross flowers and long feathered leaves that lean into the open ground rather than crowding it. Notice how much honey field is deliberately left bare: that restraint is what separates a well drawn Ziegler from a busy one. The main border carries a procession of scrolling acanthus leaves and lobed cartouches, each cartouche centered on a small trefoil, separated by little 4 square rosettes. Two narrow guard stripes of paired leaf and box motifs frame it on either side, and the corners resolve cleanly instead of being cut mid-motif.

A Field of Honey, Gold and Rust

Color is the whole argument for this rug. The field is a deep honey gold, closer to warm amber in the center of the rug and lifting toward a paler buttery straw along the border, with soft horizontal abrash banding where the hand-spun wool took the dye at slightly different strengths. That variation is visible in the angled shots and is a sign of hand-spun yarn, not a flaw. Against the honey ground the motifs are drawn in brick rust and terracotta for the rosette outlines and palmette edges, warm brown for the vine stems, and a creamy ivory for the small flower heads and tracery. Threading through all of it is a muted sage and pale celadon green, used on leaves, cartouche shading and the little square fillers, which cools the gold just enough to keep it from reading as one flat wash. The border is a lighter wheat gold that frames the field without a hard tonal break, and the fringe finishes in natural undyed ivory. The whole palette is warm and slightly sun-faded in character, which makes it forgiving next to oak, walnut, brass, cream upholstery and terracotta tile.

Made in Pakistan in the Ziegler Tradition

Ziegler designs trace back to a European trading house that commissioned Sultanabad weavers in the late 19th century to make large, open, softly colored rugs for Western drawing rooms, and that design language is now carried on by the workshops of Pakistan, principally around Peshawar and Lahore. Chobi is the trade name for these pieces, referring to the natural plant-based dye tradition they were built on, and the best of them are woven with hand-spun highland wool that takes dye unevenly on purpose, giving the gentle abrash you see here. The weave itself is even and disciplined: the back photo shows straight, regular rows with the pattern reading clearly from the reverse, the sides are tightly overcast and the ends are finished with a neat cotton fringe. Hand-spun wool clipped to 1/4 inch wears exceptionally well in a busy room, and the lanolin still in the fibre helps it shed dirt. This is contemporary hand-knotted work at a level that stands comparison with far older pieces, and it arrives brand new, never laid on a floor.