8' x 9'7" Soltani Ziglar Rug | Pazyryk-Inspired Animal Borders | Fine Ghazni Wool, Brand New

This 8' x 9'7" Soltani Ziglar is a workshop piece built around one of the oldest surviving carpet designs in the world, the Pazyryk, and it is the kind of rug people stop and read rather than simply walk across. The field is a tight coffered grid of small squared panels on deep crimson, and it is ringed by band after band of horsemen, elephants, deer and small quadrupeds marching around the rug. It is hand-knotted in fine hand-spun Ghazni wool on a cotton foundation, brand new and never used, with a thick even pile and a crisp finish visible in the corner and close-up photographs. Every rug we ship carries a certificate of authenticity.

Design and Motifs

The centre is a compartment field, row upon row of small squares, each one outlined in dark indigo with a dotted gold and ivory guard and filled with an 8 petal rosette resting on a four armed cross. Outside the field the drawing changes character entirely: a narrow band of tiny standing animals in boxes, then a sage green register of walking elephants and camels, a cross-hatch lattice band in apricot and ivory, and a wide indigo main border carrying saddled horses with their riders and blanketed mounts in profile. The outermost band returns to boxed quadrupeds, one to a cell, in alternating red, ivory, blue and green. Everything is drawn in straight lines and stepped angles, so the piece reads as a museum-grade narrative composition rather than a floral one and sits comfortably with other geometric tribal rugs.

Color Palette

The field is a deep saturated crimson with a slight warm variation across the width, the natural movement you get from hand-spun wool taking dye unevenly. Against it the panel frames are near-black indigo, and their interiors carry apricot, salmon, soft sage green, ivory and small burgundy cross centres. The main border shifts to a smoky mid-blue that photographs closer to denim than to black, and the horses on it come through in gold, ivory, pale green, chestnut and rust, with saddlecloths picked out in red and blue. A sage green register and an apricot lattice band separate the two blues and keep the whole thing from going heavy. The overall reading is warm and multi neutral: red and indigo carry the structure, while gold, ivory and green do the work at close range, which is exactly what makes 8x10 area rugs in this palette so easy to place over wood or stone.

Origin and Weaving Quality

Soltani Ziglar rugs are woven in the workshops of Pakistan, where the old Ziegler tradition of hand-spun wool, natural dyes and careful cartoon drawing has been kept alive on a serious scale. The wool here is Ghazni, a highland fleece prized for its long staple and natural lustre, spun by hand so the yarn keeps its irregularity and the finished pile takes light differently as you move around it. The weavers work on a cotton foundation, knot by knot, and the ruler photograph shows how tightly the rows sit behind the animal border. This is a contemporary hand-knotted Oriental rug made to last generations, with selvedges and fringes finished by hand and a pile dense enough to take a dining table, a heavy sofa or daily traffic without flattening.