9' x 12' Ziglar Oriental Rug | Black and Ivory Lattice Panel Design | Hand-Knotted Wool, Never Used

Piece 5277 is a full room size Oriental rug in the Ziglar manner, hand-knotted in wool on a cotton foundation and never put on a floor. The drawing is confident and evenly spaced across all 12 feet of length, with a deep black field carrying a diagonal lattice of sage and gold panels, and a wide ivory border that lifts the whole piece. The 3/8" pile has a dry, slightly waxy handle typical of good hand-spun wool, and the back shown in the final photograph is tight, flat and cleanly finished at the selvages. It ships with a certificate of authenticity. Among 9x12 hand-knotted rugs, this is the kind of quiet, dark-ground piece that anchors a room without competing with the furniture.

Design and Motifs

The field is built from a stepped diagonal lattice that divides the black ground into large diamond compartments, each one filled with rosettes, serrated leaves, small cusped cartouches and paired blossoms. It is a true all over design with no central medallion, so the pattern repeats calmly in every direction and the rug can be turned end for end without the composition looking wrong. Where the lattice arms cross, the weaver has set small ivory panels ruled into 4 tiny squares, a quiet detail that reads as brickwork inside the vine. The main ivory border runs an alternating rhythm of 8 petal rosette medallions and elongated cusped cartouches over a fretwork ground, flanked inside and out by narrow olive guard stripes of running flowerheads. The corners resolve neatly, which is the first thing to check on a lattice layout and the first place a weaker workshop gives itself away.

A Black Field Warmed by Sage, Gold and Ivory

The ground is black with a faint blue-ink cast that shows most clearly at an angle, and it is dense enough to make every light motif sit forward off the surface. Over it the lattice runs in soft sage green and antique gold, with pale celadon panels, warm honey tones and small accents of terracotta, dusty rose and true red inside the rosette centers. The border is a creamy ivory, not stark white, with an oatmeal warmth that keeps the contrast from turning harsh, and the outer guard stripe drops into olive brown edged by a black selvage. Small touches of moss and deep brown appear in the leafwork. It is a restrained palette that reads neutral from standing height and only reveals its color range up close, which makes it easy to live with against wood floors, cream walls, leather or dark cabinetry.

Woven in India in the Ziglar Tradition

India is where most of the world's best contemporary hand-knotted weaving is now done, and a piece like this is the proof. The Ziglar layout belongs to the classical workshop repertoire, redrawn here at a scale that suits a modern room, and the weavers have kept the knot count consistent from end to end so the lattice lines stay straight over a 12 foot run. Wool is hand-spun and takes dye unevenly by nature, which is what gives the sage and gold their subtle movement rather than a flat printed look. The 3/8" pile is cropped low enough to hold the fine border detail while leaving real weight underfoot, and the cotton foundation keeps the rug lying flat. New, unused and structurally perfect, it is ready for decades of daily traffic.