11'8" x 17' Chobi Peshawar Oushak Rug | Burgundy & Teal All Over Floral | Brand New Oversize

At 11'8" x 17', or 140 inches by 204 inches, this Chobi Peshawar Oushak is a genuine floor-filling piece, hand-knotted in natural wool on a cotton foundation and never walked on. The field runs a deep burgundy brown and carries a symmetrical all over lattice of flowering vines, held inside a wide teal green border of long leafy scrolls. It is sold with a certificate of authenticity. Rooms that need a rug of this footprint are usually working to a floor plan rather than a color scheme, which is why it belongs in our oversize hand-knotted rugs group.

Design and Motifs

There is no central medallion in the usual sense. Instead the weaver built a mirrored all over floral design around a single ivory 4 lobed rosette at the middle of the field, its center marked by a rust and teal cross. From that point a thick turquoise vine climbs to both ends, throwing off broad palmettes with black centers and rust outlines, tulip-like buds, small 5 petal blossoms in apricot and pink, and green leaf sprays. The large flowers sit in facing pairs along the length, which gives the field a calm vertical rhythm rather than a scattered look. The main border is drawn on a completely different scale: long ivory and camel scrolling leaves, almost antler-like, curling across the teal ground with rust outlining. A narrow rosette stripe and a burgundy dentil edge separate border from field, and the ends finish with plain ivory fringe.

A Burgundy Field Against a Teal Green Border

The color pairing is the reason to buy this rug. The ground is a muted burgundy brown, closer to aubergine in the detail shots, with soft horizontal abrash that lightens and deepens as the light crosses it. Against that sits a border of blue-leaning teal green, a genuinely unusual choice at this size and the element that keeps the whole piece from reading as a dark red rug. The flower heads supply the warm notes: rust and coral outlines, apricot and camel petals, dusty pink buds, cream and ivory centers, with near-black hearts inside the big palmettes for contrast. Turquoise vinework threads through everything and ties field to border. It is a rug that can carry a room of burgundy and red tones or sit against greens, brass and dark timber without a fight.

Chobi Peshawar Weaving and the Oushak Tradition

Peshawar, in northwest Pakistan, is where much of today's best decorative hand-knotted work is produced, and the Chobi group is its calling card: hand-spun wool, plant-based dye recipes, and the softened, low-contrast palettes that collectors associate with the old Oushak weaving of western Anatolia. That is the source of this drawing, the bold large-scale flowers and the open border scroll rather than the tight curvilinear detail of a city workshop. The knotting here is even across all 17 feet, the selvedges are firm, the pile is full and the wool has the dry, slightly glossy handle of good mountain fleece. If you are weighing this against other traditional pieces, our guide on what separates a Persian rug from an Oriental rug explains where Pakistani Chobi weaving sits in that family.