9'2" x 11'8" Ziegler Chobi Peshawar Wool Rug | Slate Blue All-Over Floral Lattice | Brand New, Never Used

This is a hand-knotted Ziegler Chobi woven in Peshawar, a room-size piece that reads calm from across the floor and detailed up close. The field is a soft slate blue with a faint teal cast, filled edge to edge with gold, ivory and peach rosettes, and the wide beige main border carries large rust and brown leaf forms between gold guard stripes. The pile is natural wool on a cotton foundation, cut at a medium height that shows the drawing clearly, and the rug has never been on a floor. At 9'2" x 11'8" it sits in the most useful room size there is, so it is worth comparing against our other 9x12 Oriental rugs before you decide. Every rug we ship leaves Freeport with a certificate of authenticity confirming it is genuinely hand-knotted, along with its size, material and origin.

Design and Motifs

The field runs as a true all-over floral pattern with no central medallion, which is why the rug works under a sofa group or a dining table without the drawing being swallowed. A thin vine lattice divides the ground into soft diamonds and ogee compartments, and each one holds either a lobed 8 petal rosette or a round multi-petal flowerhead, alternating in scale so the eye keeps moving. Small serrated leaves, buds and paisley-like sprays fill the gaps between them. The border system is three bands deep: a narrow rust-outlined inner stripe, the broad beige main border with its alternating slate cartouches and tall split-leaf palmettes, and an outer gold stripe of ivory blossoms on a vine. The corners are resolved properly rather than cut off mid-motif, which is a quick tell for drafting care on a rug this size.

Color: Slate Blue, Gold and Soft Rust

The ground color is the whole point of this piece. It is a muted slate blue, cool and slightly green in some light, laid down with enough abrash that the field breathes rather than sitting flat, and it behaves like one of our grey and charcoal rugs next to cool wall paint while still reading blue beside warm wood. Over it the florals run through old gold, honey, wheat and clean ivory, with salmon and peach outlines that keep the pattern from feeling cold. Rust and deep chocolate brown appear only in the small centers and the leaf tips of the border palmettes, so the darkest values are used as punctuation. The beige main border is a warm sand rather than white, and the outer stripe shifts to a stronger marigold gold. The selvage and ends are a grey-brown that frames the whole thing, finished with natural ivory cotton fringe.

Peshawar Weaving and the Ziegler Tradition

Peshawar in northwestern Pakistan has become one of the strongest centers for hand-knotted work in the classical idiom, and the Ziegler style it is known for goes back to a 19th century firm that commissioned classical drawings in softened, muted palettes for Western rooms. Chobi refers to that same tradition of restrained, wood-and-plant toned dyeing, which is exactly what you see here in the dusty field and the aged gold. The wool is dense and springy with a dry sheen typical of highland fleece, the knotting is even across both ends, and the back is tight and regular on its cotton warps, as the folded corner photograph shows. If you are weighing this against a Persian piece, our guide on the difference between a Persian and an Oriental rug is the clearest place to start.