8' x 10' Chobi Ziegler Oriental Rug | All-Over Floral on Slate Blue | Hand-Knotted Wool, Brand New

This is a brand new, never used 8' x 10' Chobi Ziegler Oriental rug, hand-knotted in wool on a cotton foundation, with a slate blue field carried edge to edge by a soft, open floral vine. What sells a rug like this in person is the handle: the pile is dense enough to stand up under furniture, yet the wool is glossy and takes light differently depending on where you stand, which is why the blue looks grey-toned in one photo and closer to denim in the next. The drawing is generous rather than crowded, the palette is muted the way the older pieces were, and the finish is clean on all 4 sides with even ivory fringe. It ships with a certificate of authenticity confirming it as a genuine hand-knotted wool rug, along with its original inventory tag, PIX-26342.

Design and Motifs

The field is an all-over floral design with no medallion, built from staggered rows of blossoming stems: small palmettes on slim stalks, 8 petal rosettes, tulip and carnation heads, and split leaves that curl back on themselves. Each stem reaches toward the next so the pattern reads as a continuous vine rather than a repeat of isolated stamps, which is the mark of a properly drawn Ziegler cartoon. Because there is no central focus, furniture can sit anywhere on it without cutting off the design, one of the practical reasons decorators keep reaching for an 8x10 in this pattern. The rug carries a triple border: a wide sage main band of alternating palmettes and rosettes, framed on both sides by a narrow gold guard stripe of running vine, with fine red reciprocal lines at the outer edges. The corners are resolved cleanly, with the border pattern turning properly at all 4 corners instead of being truncated.

Color: Slate Blue, Sage Green and Burgundy

The ground is a slate blue with a grey-green undertone, softly abrashed so horizontal bands of lighter and deeper blue move across the field as the light changes. Against it, the floral work sits in ivory, cream, pale gold and apricot, with brick red and deep burgundy for the larger palmettes and small notes of near-black aubergine that punctuate the rhythm. There is also a quiet celadon green in the leaves, cool enough to keep the warm tones from taking over. The main border shifts to a dusty sage green, lighter than the field and a shade closer to olive in the corner photos, with its palmettes picked out in salmon, gold and red so the frame stays legible without shouting. The outer guard stripe is a pale straw gold, and the selvedges are overcast in blue that matches the field. As a whole this is a soft, tonal palette that works with greys, taupes and navy, not a high-contrast rug.

Origin and Weaving Quality

This piece was woven in Afghanistan, today the strongest source in the world for Chobi Ziegler weaving. The pattern family takes its name from Ziegler & Co, the Manchester firm whose late 19th century pattern books introduced these open, softly colored floral designs to Western interiors, and Afghan workshops now reproduce them by hand knot for knot. Chobi refers to the muted, wood-toned dye palette these weavers favor, which is why the blues and greens read as though they have already mellowed for decades. The wool is hand-spun, so the yarn takes dye unevenly and produces the natural abrash you see in the field, and it is knotted on a cotton warp at a tight, even count with straight sides and a flat, well-seated back. Practically, that combination of hand-spun wool and dense knotting is what makes these rugs age well rather than simply wear out.