9' x 12' Jaipur Oriental Rug | Ivory Zigler All Over Design | Hand-Knotted in India

This is a brand new hand-knotted Jaipur piece from India, woven in the Zigler manner on a cotton foundation with a dense natural wool pile that still has its full, unwalked height. The drawing covers the entire ivory ground with a repeating floral lattice, framed by a deep black main border, and the weave is tight enough that the motifs stay crisp right down to the small rosettes in the guard stripes. As an Oriental rug in the most useful room size made, it sits comfortably in the middle of the 9x12 area rug range, and it ships with a certificate of authenticity confirming it is genuinely hand-knotted.

Design and Motifs

The field is a true all over design with no central medallion, built from a lattice of slender black and rust vines that link column after column of palmettes, split leaves and 8 petal rosettes. Small stepped diamonds in rust and black punctuate the lattice at regular intervals, and cypress-like leaf forms rise between the larger flower heads, giving the repeat a vertical rhythm you can read from either end of the room. The main border carries a stately procession of gold and rust palmettes on black, flanked by an ivory band of 4 petal flowers and a serrated red and ivory guard stripe that runs uninterrupted around all 4 corners. The corner resolutions are handled cleanly, with the border pattern turning rather than being cut off, which is a mark of a properly drawn cartoon.

A Palette of Ivory, Black, Rust and Green

The ground is a warm ivory that leans toward cream and light beige rather than stark white, so it reads soft under lamplight and warm against oak, walnut and pale stone floors. Against it, the outlines are drawn in a near-black charcoal that gives the pattern its structure, while deep rust and brick red fill the diamonds, the flower hearts and the inner guard stripe. Sage and olive greens appear in the leaves and small buds, cooling the reds, and muted old gold picks out the larger palmettes in both the field and the main border. Touches of pale blue-green and soft peach show up in the smaller rosettes, visible in the close pile shots. The overall effect is a traditional ivory and black color scheme with warm accents, easy to live with and forgiving of everyday traffic.

Jaipur Weaving and the Zigler Style

Jaipur, in Rajasthan, is one of the great weaving centers of modern India, and India is where most of the world's best contemporary hand-knotted work is now produced. The Zigler style this rug follows is a classical all over floral idiom prized for how well it scales to large room sizes, and it demands steady knot counts across a 9 foot width to keep the lattice from wandering. The back photograph shows an even, tightly packed grid of knots with clean color changes and no lazy lines, and the folded corner reveals a heavy, dense handle with good body for a new rug. Natural wool of this grade takes dye cleanly and gains luster with foot traffic, so the pile will settle and sheen rather than flatten.