8' x 10' Indian Jaipur Rug | Ziegler All-Over Floral | Wool and Silk, Brand New

This is a brand new, never used Ziegler design rug hand-knotted in Jaipur, India, in a soft neutral palette that reads beige from across the room and reveals rust and sage detail up close. The pile is wool and silk on a cotton foundation, so the flowers and leaves pick up light at a different angle than the field does, which is exactly what the silk is there for. At 8' x 10' it covers a standard seating group or a table for 8, and it sits in the most useful part of our 8x10 Oriental rugs selection. Clipped evenly, square on the floor, with full even pile and clean ivory fringe, it ships with our certificate of authenticity.

Design and Motifs

There is no medallion here. The field carries an all-over floral design built on a thin scrolling vine that travels corner to corner, hung with large open palmettes, 8 petal and 10 petal rosettes, lotus blossoms and long serrated split leaves. Between the big blooms sit small buds, curling cloud-band leaves and tiny tendril hooks that keep the open ground from looking empty. The drawing is drawn in mirror pairs across the center line, so the layout stays balanced without becoming a strict repeat. Three borders frame it: a wide main border of linked rosettes, cypress sprays and palmette bouquets, set between 2 narrow guard stripes of running floral vine with small 5 petal flowers. The outer edge finishes in a plain selvage, and the corner resolutions in the main border are properly turned rather than cut short.

Colors in the Field and Borders

The field is a warm beige, closer to sand than to white, with a faint ivory cast where the silk catches the light. The main border steps up into a deeper sage olive, giving the rug a visible frame without introducing a hard color break. Inside the flowers the palette is tightly controlled: rust and brick red at the hearts of the big rosettes, soft apricot and salmon on the smaller buds, camel and taupe on the leaves, and clean ivory highlights on the petal tips. Fine navy and charcoal outlining does the structural work, separating one bloom from the next so the drawing stays legible against the pale ground. The vine itself is woven barely a shade darker than the field, a quiet line that holds everything together. Nothing in the palette shouts, which is why a rug like this works with wood, stone and most upholstery already in a room.

Jaipur Weaving and Quality

Jaipur, in Rajasthan, is one of the main workshop centers for India's best contemporary hand-knotting, and India is now where most of the world's good new hand-knotted work is made. We say that plainly because the weave supports it: the back shows small, even, clearly defined knots in regular rows, tight enough to hold curved vine lines and the narrow guard stripe flowers without them breaking up. The Ziegler layout, with its open ground and large-scale florals, only reads correctly when the drawing is this disciplined. Wool takes the ground color and the wear, silk carries the highlights, and the cotton foundation keeps the rug lying flat and square. If you are weighing this against a Persian piece, our guide on what separates a Persian rug from an Oriental rug covers the distinction, and the rest of our hand-knotted Oriental rugs gives you the comparison in person.