Description
An extraordinary golden yellow antique Ziegler carpet from the late 19th century. It is incredibly rare to come across this background colour due to the expensive yellow dyes. More often using saffron or turmeric to dye the wool to get this remarkable colour, in the late 19th century it would have been a costly exercise and usually these grand carpets from the Sultanabad workshop in Persia were commissioned for stately homes across Europe and the US.
Measuring 520 x 425 cm / 17′ x 13’11” the condition is wonderful, with some corrosion to the ancient brown dyes, this wool had a lot of iron properties, which is why it has corroded over the last 130 plus years. This has to be one of our favourite antique Ziegler carpets we have ever had in our collection, and it has also recently been used in an upcoming Hollywood movie. Even more exciting that a few very famous and amazing actors have walked over it. We cannot wait to see the film!
Please do contact us for more information on this remarkable Ziegler, we travel all over the UK showing our collection of carpets and rugs in customers homes. As well as having worked with some the UK’s best interior designers. It would be a pleasure to organise showing you this carpet in-situ or at our barn showroom in Surrey soon.
Ziegler & Co a Manchester-based Swiss producer was a genius in creating the worlds most desirable and decorative carpets. Using wool from Manchester, UK he had workshops in Sultanabad and supplied Liberty and Harvey Nichols. Ziegler & Co were instrumental in shaping how decorative carpets would be produced in Persia and what designs would be woven in Sultanabad for the next 50 years. The company’s designs were essentially Western versions of finer Persian designs, their large scale floral designs and often enormous sizes were modified to the specifications of Western retailers. Most of the Ziegler production was shipped to New York and London.
Our home visits can be requested for anywhere in the UK, we have travelled as far as Scotland and Ireland to show our carpets in situ. Visiting our barn showroom is also available Monday to Saturday and can be booked in by appointment on our website too.
You can also reserve this carpet for your home or project too, use our latest feature, clicking on Reserve for us to organise this for you.
Ziegler rugs developed an almost immediate following, especially among early collectors, which included the Guinness family, who laid them in Elveden Hall, their Suffolk estate.
Ziegler & Co employed designers from major western department stores such as A B. Altman & Co of New York and Liberty, to modify 16th- and 17th-century Eastern designs for the more restrained western taste. Using highly developed dying techniques, and the best artisans from the region, the Ziegler Co created rugs with decorative all-over patterns and with softer palettes than their vibrant Persian counterparts. Taking the small intricate patterns of finer Persian carpets and enlarging the floral motifs to use on these Ziegler’s. Their following and popularity with the best interior designers throughout the world has seen them stay at the top of the industry since they were produced.
