The Verona rug is a project in which you work with post stitches. Post stitches provide a lot of texture in your crochet work and therefore give this rug a textured look, especially in combination with the recycled cotton yarn.
This project is for advanced crocheters, but I think adventurous beginners can handle it too. You should be familiar with some special stitches: front post stitches and crocheting in the back loop and in the third loop.

This crochet pattern for INTERMEDIATE till ADVANCED.

MATERIALS:
Yarn: Barbante XL (SUPER BULKY) recycled cotton yarn,
Total 1000 m
Hook: 7 or 8 mm
Finished size: Diameter 120 cm (47,2 in)

or
Yarn: Barbante M (BULKY) recycled cotton yarn,
Total 700 m
Hook: 5 mm
Finished size: Diameter 94 cm (37 in)

Your purchase includes
✔14 pages PDF Download
✔ English (US terms) and Dutch versions
✔ Large charts
✔ Photos of each round and some special stitches
✔ Gauge to check size
✔ Stitch counts for every round
✔ Special stitches instructions
✔ Notes on how to read the pattern
✔ Extensions options

Using this pattern, you can also make TABLE MATS or smaller rug. Here are the sizes from my testers.

1. Table mat cotton thread - Scheepjes Maxi Sweet Treat (56 g) and 2 mm hook → 37 cm / 14,6 inch
2. Table mat 100% acrylic yarn, 2 mm hook → 44 cm / 17,25 inch
3. Rug - Sugar’n cream cotton yarn (420 g) and 4.5 mm hook → 74 cm / 29 inch
4. Rug - Yarn Bee Breathe Deep Super (970 m) and 9 mm hook → 114 cm / 45 inch
5. Rug – Tshirt yarn 2 cm, El original (850 m), 8 mm hook → 124 cm (48.8 in.) – rounds 1 till 41 of the pattern made