9'10" x 13'9" Chobi Peshawar Ziegler Rug | Light Beige & Sage Green All Over Floral | Brand New Natural Wool

This 9'10" x 13'9" Chobi Peshawar is the quiet kind of Oriental rug that does the hardest job in a room: it fills 135 square feet of floor without competing with a single thing above it. The pile is hand-spun natural wool on a cotton foundation, hand-knotted one knot at a time, then given the soft wash that gives Chobi weaving its low sheen and slightly antiqued surface. Brand new and never used, it arrives with a certificate of authenticity confirming it as a genuine hand-knotted piece. Photograph 11 shows the weaver's tag and the tape across the back, and the reverse in image 5 reads clean and even from selvage to selvage.

Design and Motifs

The drawing follows the Ziegler tradition, an all over floral design with no central medallion, so the field can be cropped by furniture anywhere without losing its logic. Large split palmettes sit on a loose lattice of curling vine, each one flanked by feathered acanthus leaves and anchored by small 8 petal rosettes and 4 lobed clover forms scattered between the main heads, visible in the close detail of image 10. The scale is generous: the repeat is drawn big and open, with plenty of bare ground between motifs rather than the dense infill of a city rug. A wide main border of alternating palmettes and leafy scrolls runs all 4 sides, framed by narrow guard stripes of running vine and reciprocal cartouche work, shown clearly in the border macro of image 9. The corners resolve cleanly, a detail worth checking on any room size rug this wide.

Color Palette

The field is a light beige that reads closer to warm oatmeal in daylight and to pale ivory under lamps, with the natural abrash of hand-spun wool giving it faint horizontal movement instead of flat uniformity. Motifs are outlined in a muted sage green, soft and dusty rather than bright, which carries into the main border where the palmettes take on a slightly deeper olive tone. Running through both field and border is a thin soft peach to light salmon outline, the only warm note in the rug and just strong enough to keep the whole surface from going cold. Highlights of undyed cream lift the centers of the larger flowers, and a whisper of pale celadon appears in a few leaf tips. There is no black, no navy and no strong red anywhere, which is exactly why a palette like this sits so easily with oak, walnut, linen upholstery and white plaster walls. Buyers shopping beige and ivory rugs should note how much detail is still present up close despite the low contrast from across a room.

Peshawar Weaving and Quality

Chobi rugs are woven around Peshawar in northern Pakistan, where weavers from the wider region have kept the Ziegler drawing style alive on wide floor looms since the workshops of the late 19th century popularized it for Western rooms. Chobi means wood in the local usage, a reference to the plant based dye recipes that give these rugs their willow green, walnut brown and soft apricot tones. The wool here is hand-spun rather than machine-spun, which is why the dye sits unevenly enough to breathe, and the pile is cut at a medium height that shows the knot definition in image 6 while still feeling substantial underfoot. The back is tight and regular, the selvages are hand-wrapped and the fringe is the extension of the cotton warp rather than a sewn-on addition. At 9'10" x 13'9" this is a genuine room size weave, made on a single loom by a small team working across many months, and it will outlive any machine-made rug in the same footprint by decades.