9' x 11'5" Zigler Chobi Peshawar Rug | Charcoal Black and Gold All Over Floral | Brand New

Dark ground room size pieces are hard to find in good handspun wool, which is why this 9' x 11'5" Zigler Chobi is worth a close look. The field is a deep charcoal black, the main border a soft camel gold, and the wool has the dry, chalky luster that comes from handspun yarn and natural dyes rather than machine spun fiber. It is brand new, never laid in a home, with full even pile edge to edge and a flat, square handle you can see in the angled photographs. Among 9x12 area rugs this one sits slightly short of a full twelve feet, which makes it a good fit for rooms where a true 9x12 crowds the walls. Every rug we ship carries a certificate of authenticity confirming it is 100% hand-knotted.

Design and Motifs

There is no medallion here. The drawing is an all over floral lattice, with a thin gold vine that crosses itself in long diagonals and drops a flower head at each junction. Large serrated palmettes and 12 petal rosettes anchor the repeat, smaller star flowers and curling saz leaves fill the space between, and a handful of split leaf cloudbands read almost like small animal forms in the center of the field. The main border carries alternating rosettes and black feathered leaves on a gold ground, flanked by two narrow guard stripes of small four petal flowers. Corners are resolved cleanly, the repeat turns without breaking, and the whole layout stays symmetrical along both axes, which is the mark of a carefully followed cartoon rather than a loose village copy.

Charcoal Black, Gold, Sage Green and Rust

The field is not a flat black. Under the gold tracery it moves between soft charcoal and near ink, with faint abrash banding across the width that you can see best in the close detail photographs. Against it the palmettes bloom in wheat gold, honey and pale apricot, several of them shaded from a warm caramel heart out to cream tips. The wide border is a light camel gold that drops to a warm tan where the light hits the pile at an angle. Accents do the rest of the work: sage and olive green in the small leaves, deep rust and wine red in the tiny blossoms and the feather scrolls, and crisp black outlines in the guard stripes that tie the border back to the field. It is a high contrast rug that still reads warm, which makes it easy to live with next to walnut, brass and cream upholstery.

Woven in Peshawar, Pakistan

Peshawar is the center of the Chobi and Zigler weaving trade, and the best workshops there produce some of the finest new hand-knotted work being made anywhere today. Chobi means wood, a reference to the plant and wood based dyes used on the handspun wool, which is why the gold and rust tones here look muted and layered rather than uniform. The pile is dense and evenly clipped at a medium height, the knotting is regular across the full 108 inch width, and the back shows tight, clean rows over a cotton foundation with straight selvages and hand finished cream fringe. This is a true Oriental rug in the classic sense, built by hand on a loom knot by knot, and with wool of this grade it will take decades of traffic and only look better for it.