9'2" x 11'10" Chobi Ziegler Oriental Rug | Slate Gray All-Over Palmette Design | Hand-Knotted Wool, Brand New

This 9'2" x 11'10" Chobi Ziegler is a full room-size piece woven entirely by hand in Peshawar, with a slate gray field and a wide beige main border that reads almost like an old decorative rug rather than a new one. The wool is hand-spun and the dyes are soft and low in contrast, so the drawing sits quietly on the field instead of shouting at the room. It falls squarely into the most useful format we sell, and buyers shopping 9x12 hand-knotted rugs will recognise how easily this size anchors a seating group. The pile is thick, the selvages are tight, the fringe is clean, and the rug has never been on a floor. It ships with a certificate of authenticity confirming that it is 100% hand-knotted.

Design and Motifs

There is no central medallion here. The field carries a balanced all-over design built from large mirrored palmettes, feathered serrated leaves and small 8 petal rosettes strung along curving vine stems, repeated up the length of the rug so the pattern continues in every direction. The drawing is generous in scale, which is exactly what the Ziegler style was developed for: big, open, unhurried motifs that stay legible when most of the rug is under furniture. The main border is a wide beige band of paired palmettes and scrolling leafwork, set between narrow guard stripes of blossom and reciprocal trefoil, and finished with a plain slate outer edge. Look closely at the corners in the detail photos and you can see how cleanly the border turns, which is a fair test of a weaver working from a well drafted cartoon.

A Slate Gray Field With Beige, Gold and Seafoam

The field is a warm slate gray, closer to a soft stone than to a cool steel, and it carries just enough variation through the hand-spun wool to give the surface depth as the light moves across it. Against that ground the palmettes and leaves are drawn in beige, sand and a mellow honey gold, with pale ivory used for the small blossoms and rosettes so the pattern keeps some sparkle. Running through the leafwork is a muted seafoam green that turns slightly blue in the borders, and the outlines are picked out in charcoal, which is what keeps the design crisp despite the gentle palette. The beige main border reads as a light frame around the darker field, so the rug brightens at the edges. For rooms built around soft neutrals, it sits comfortably with other gray and charcoal rugs while adding warmth that a flat gray never gives you.

Peshawar Weaving and the Ziegler Tradition

Chobi Ziegler rugs are woven in and around Peshawar, where the workshops spin their own wool, dye it in small batches and knot on a cotton foundation at a weight suited to heavy floor use. Chobi refers to the natural, wood and plant based dye tradition that gives these pieces their soft, slightly faded tonality straight off the loom, and the Ziegler name refers to the large decorative drawing style that 19th century export houses commissioned for Western rooms. This piece is a good example of the type: honest hand-knotted work, even knot lines across the full 9'2" width, a dense pile that stands up straight, and a back that shows clean, regular rows in the photographs. If you are weighing this against other weaving traditions, our guide to what separates a Persian rug from an Oriental rug is worth reading before you buy.