8'8" x 12'6" Ziegler Chobi Peshawar Rug | All Over Floral Design | Handspun Natural Wool, Brand New

This is a brand new, never used Ziegler Chobi woven in the Peshawar workshops, hand-knotted knot by knot in handspun natural wool over a cotton foundation. It is the kind of piece buyers shopping 9x12 Oriental rugs are usually looking for and rarely find in this quality: a quiet, light, room-filling field with no central medallion competing for attention, heavy enough in hand to sit flat under a dining table or a full living room furniture set. The pile is clipped low and even, the selvages are tight, and the ends finish in plain cream cotton fringe with no repair or reweaving anywhere. It ships with our certificate of authenticity confirming it is genuinely hand-knotted.

Design and Motifs

The field carries a true all over floral design, drawn as a wide trellis of thin vines that branch into palmettes, cypress-like leaf forms, serrated leaves and small blossom heads. The drawing mirrors left to right and repeats up the length, so the pattern reads as continuous rather than centered, which is exactly why this layout survives being partly covered by furniture. The main border is the strongest element: a broad camel band set with large 8 petal star rosettes alternating with dense leaf and blossom fill, framed by 4 narrow guard stripes of small quatrefoil flowers and rosebuds. The corners resolve cleanly, a detail that separates carefully mapped weaving from commercial work, and the inner guard band adds a slim ivory line that lifts the border away from the field.

A Beige Field With Rust, Brown and Deep Blue-Green Accents

The ground is a warm wheat beige that shifts toward soft gold where the light catches the pile and toward pale sand where it runs the other way, the natural abrash of handspun, naturally dyed wool. Against it the motifs are drawn in caramel and toffee brown, terracotta rust, muted brick red, and small notes of deep blue-green that photograph almost black in the corner rosettes. Ivory and pale celadon highlight the flower heads, while a touch of charcoal black outlines the leaves and gives the pattern its definition. The border sits a shade deeper than the field, a camel tan that reads darker at an angle, so the rug frames itself without introducing a hard contrast. This is a genuinely neutral rug that still has color in it: at a distance it is beige and gold, up close it is full of red and green detail.

Woven in Peshawar, Pakistan

Peshawar is where the Ziegler Chobi style is woven today, and the weavers there have built a reputation on three things: handspun wool rather than machine spun, natural dyes, and a soft washed finish that gives a new rug the mellow tone of an old one. Chobi means wood, a reference to the plant and vegetable dyes that produce these caramel, rust and moss tones. The knotting here is fine enough to hold the thin vine lines and the small blossom heads without the drawing turning blocky, the back is clear and even, and the wool has the dry, slightly lustrous handle that wears well and cleans easily. If you are weighing the difference between this style of Oriental rug and a city workshop piece, the Chobi trades knot count for scale, softness of palette and a weight that lies dead flat from the day it is unrolled.