10' x 13'9" Chobi Peshawar Rug | Transitional All Over Floral | Natural Hand-Spun Wool, Never Used

Laid out flat, this rug measures 10' x 13'9" and gives you a true 10x14 room size in about the quietest palette a hand-knotted rug can be woven in. Every color sits within a shade or two of every other one: a sandy beige field, ivory drawing, taupe shadows, and small rust and light blue notes that only announce themselves when you are standing over the rug. The wool is hand-spun and the pile is clipped low and level, so the surface reads closer to a fine flat textile than a plush floor covering, and the pattern comes through as tone rather than contrast. It is brand new, never walked on, in perfect condition, and it ships with a certificate of authenticity.

Design and Motifs

The drawing is a transitional all over floral design built around a small octagonal rosette at the exact center, no more than a couple of feet across, flanked left and right by stepped cartouche forms and a pair of broad ivory palmettes. From there the field opens up into long leafy stems, curled vine tips, and split leaf forms that fan diagonally toward the 4 corners, with tiny 8 petal rosettes scattered through the open ground to keep it from going flat. Slim vertical stem and vase forms sit on either side of the center, which is what gives the layout its gentle top-to-bottom axis rather than a hard medallion focus. The main border is a chain of linked rosettes and serrated leaves, set between narrow guard stripes of running floral heads, and the whole frame is drawn at the same low contrast as the field, so the border defines the edge without cutting the rug off visually from the floor around it.

A Study in Beige, Ivory and Faded Blue

The field is beige, but beige with movement in it: hand-spun yarn takes dye unevenly, so the ground runs from oatmeal to a warmer sand to a faint greige across the width, with soft horizontal striations where one batch of wool met the next. The pattern itself is drawn mainly in ivory and cream, a half step lighter than the ground, which is why the palmettes and leaves read as texture from standing height and only resolve into clear motifs up close. Taupe outlines the larger leaf forms and gives the design its structure. Light blue, faded almost to a dusty powder tone, appears in the leaf bodies, a few of the border rosettes and the shading around the center medallion, and it is the coolest note in the rug. Rust is used sparingly, in the heart of the center rosette and in small flower heads along the borders, and it supplies the only genuine warmth in an otherwise neutral scheme. There is a faint grey green cast to some of the vine work, visible in the close-up field shots, which keeps the neutrals from feeling sterile.

Chobi Weaving in Afghanistan

Chobi Peshawar rugs are woven by Afghan weavers working in the tradition that grew up around the Peshawar trade route, and they are the reason a genuinely hand-knotted Oriental rug in soft neutrals is still attainable at this size. The wool is spun by hand rather than machine, which is exactly what produces the tonal variation across the ground, and the dyes are kept deliberately muted so the finished rug looks settled from day one instead of needing 20 years of light to get there. The back, shown folded in the detail photos, is even and tight with clearly legible knot rows and no skips or pulls, and the selvages and ivory fringe are original and undisturbed. On a piece 10' x 13'9" that consistency matters more than raw knot count: holding the drawing straight and the tension uniform across 13 and a half feet of length is the real test, and this weaver passed it.