9'1" x 11'9" Ziegler Chobi Peshawar Rug | Muted Teal Field with Golden Florals | New, Never Used

This is a brand new, never used Ziegler Chobi from Peshawar, hand-knotted in natural wool on a cotton foundation and measuring 9'1" x 11'9". The whole piece is built on restraint: a soft teal field, golden wheat florals, and a wide beige border that keeps the drawing calm rather than busy. The pile has already been washed down to a gentle sheen, so it looks settled the day it arrives rather than new and loud. As a hand-knotted Oriental rug, it ships with a certificate of authenticity, and the original hand woven tag is still attached to the back. At just over 9 by nearly 12 feet it sits squarely in the most useful room size there is, one of the true 9x12 area rugs that will float a full seating group without crowding the walls.

Design and Motifs

The field carries a classic all-over floral design with no central medallion, so the pattern reads evenly from every side of the room. Large open palmettes anchor the repeat, linked by thin scrolling vines that curl into split leaves, small rosettes and feathered lancet leaves. The close-up shots show how generously the drawing is spaced: there is real open ground between motifs, which is what gives a Ziegler its airy, uncluttered look compared with a tightly packed floral. The main border repeats a rhythm of palmettes and cupped blossoms on an ivory ground, flanked by narrow guard stripes of running vine, and the corners resolve cleanly where the border turns. It is a design that suits traditional and transitional rooms equally well, because the pattern is formal but the palette is not.

Color: Muted Teal, Soft Gold and Ivory

The field is a muted teal blue that leans toward soft sage in daylight, the kind of grey-green blue that behaves like a neutral next to white walls, oak floors and linen upholstery. Against it the florals are drawn in golden wheat and warm apricot beige, with paler cream outlines that soften every edge so no motif jumps forward. The wide border shifts to a creamy ivory beige, with pale blue and soft sage stems threading through the vinework and a light rust shadow appearing here and there in the palmettes. There is gentle abrash across the field, visible in the angled pile photographs as bands of slightly lighter and deeper teal, which is the honest mark of hand-dyed wool. Overall contrast is deliberately low, and that is the point: the rug adds color temperature to a room without dictating the scheme.

Woven in Peshawar, Pakistan

Peshawar is the home of the modern Ziegler Chobi, a revival of the 19th century Ziegler and Company workshop rugs made for European and American drawing rooms, with their oversized floral repeats and softened palettes. The weavers there work on cotton warps with hand-spun wool, and chobi refers to the natural, wood and plant based dyes that produce these quiet golds and teals rather than sharp synthetic tones. The folded corner photograph shows the back: an even, legible knot grid with straight rows and no pulling, the sign of a well-tensioned loom and disciplined weaving. Pile height is medium and the handle is supple, so the rug lies flat immediately and takes daily traffic without matting. For a room-size floor covering that is genuinely hand-knotted and built to be walked on for decades, this is the tradition doing exactly what it does best.