9'1" x 11'11" Chobi Peshawar Oriental Rug | Ziegler All-Over Floral | Light Blue & Ivory | New

This is a brand new, never used Chobi Peshawar piece measuring 9'1" x 11'11", hand-knotted in natural hand-spun wool on a cotton foundation and drawn in the Ziegler manner. It is a quiet rug rather than a loud one: a soft light blue field, ivory borders that read almost like old parchment, and just enough brown and rose in the blossoms to keep the whole thing from going flat. The wool has the slightly uneven, hand-spun character that takes dye in gentle gradations, which is why the blue shifts subtly from one end to the other in the photographs. At 9 feet by nearly 12 feet it sits comfortably in the standard 9x12 Oriental rugs class, which covers most seating groups and larger dining tables without needing a custom size. If you are weighing this against a city workshop piece, our guide on what separates a Persian from a broader Oriental rug is worth a read. Every rug we ship, including this one, leaves with a certificate of authenticity confirming it is genuinely hand-knotted.

Design and Motifs

There is no medallion here. The field carries an all-over floral design built from large open palmettes and multi-petal rosettes, each one sitting on a thin serpentine vine that climbs the length of the rug in staggered columns. Between the big blossoms sit smaller buds, split leaves and curling tendrils, so the eye keeps moving instead of settling in one spot. The drawing is soft and slightly rounded, a Ziegler trait borrowed from the old Sultanabad workshop style, where the floral forms were simplified and scaled up for Western rooms. Three borders frame the field: a wide ivory main border with alternating palmettes and standing floral sprays, flanked by narrow guard stripes of small repeating blossoms and dashes. The corners resolve cleanly, with the border pattern turning rather than being cut off, which is a sign the weaver followed the cartoon properly. Ends are finished in a short fringe and the sides in a flat, tight selvedge.

The Color: Soft Light Blue, Ivory and Warm Brown

The field is a pale, slightly grey-leaning light blue, closer to a faded denim or a wash of sky than to a saturated navy, and it carries fine vertical striation from the hand-spun yarn. Against it the flowers are worked in ivory, oatmeal, pale honey and a muted camel brown, with the occasional rust red or soft rose outline at the center of a rosette and small flecks of a deeper slate blue in the leaves. The main border is a creamy ivory that warms to light beige under indoor light, so the frame lifts the blue field without creating a hard edge. Brown appears mostly as outlining and in the border palmettes, giving the design definition at a distance. This is a genuinely easy palette to live with: it reads neutral in a room with white walls and warm wood, and it works as one of the calmer options among blue Oriental rugs if deep indigo feels too heavy.

Peshawar Weaving and the Ziegler Tradition

Chobi Peshawar rugs are woven in and around Peshawar in northern Pakistan, a weaving center built up over generations by families working on vertical looms with hand-spun wool and natural dye recipes. Chobi translates roughly as wood color, a reference to the plant and vegetable dyes that give these rugs their soft, slightly washed tonality straight off the loom. The Ziegler design itself goes back to the 19th century, when the firm of Ziegler and Company commissioned simplified large-scale floral patterns for export, and Peshawar workshops have kept that drawing alive with better wool and tighter weaving than most of the market. The construction here is honest village-to-workshop quality: a cotton warp and weft for stability, a medium-low wool pile that holds its clipped definition, and even knotting across the full 109 inch width with no drawn-in waist. Hand-spun wool of this type keeps its natural lanolin, so the surface develops a low sheen with use rather than looking tired.