14'10" x 17'10" Chobi Peshawar Rug | Slate Blue & Beige Floral Lattice | Vegetable Dyed Handspun Wool

This is a genuinely oversize piece, 14'10" x 17'10" of hand-knotted handspun wool, woven in Peshawar in the Chobi manner with vegetable dyes and a soft chemical-free wash. Roll it out and the first thing you notice is that there is no border at all: the beige lattice runs edge to edge across a slate blue ground, which is why a room this large reads calm rather than busy. The pile is even and low enough to sit flush under doors and dining chairs, the selvages are tight, and the rug lies flat with no ripple, as the overhead photographs show. Pieces at this width are hard to find in a quiet two-color palette, and we ship them free across all 50 states rather than charging a freight surcharge. A certificate of authenticity is included with every rug, confirming that it is 100% hand-knotted. Browse more oversize hand-knotted area rugs if you are working with a great room of this scale.

Design and Motifs

The whole field is built on a repeating diamond lattice drawn in beige on blue. Each diamond is framed by a spine of serrated leaves that meet at the points to form 4 pointed junctions, and inside every compartment sits a small stepped lozenge with a single blossom at its center. Between the lattice bars the weavers filled the ground with 4 petal and 5 petal blossoms, curling vine tips and paired leaf sprays, so the eye never lands on an empty patch of blue. Vertical tulip-like sprigs alternate with the lozenges down the length of the rug, giving the repeat a subtle up-and-down rhythm instead of a flat grid. There is no medallion, no spandrel and no border band, which is the defining choice here: the pattern simply continues to the edge and is cut by the selvage, the way a length of block-printed cloth would be. That makes the rug unusually forgiving under furniture, since a sofa or an 12 seat dining table can cover a third of the surface without swallowing a medallion or cropping a border.

Color and Dyes

Two colors do all the work. The ground is a slate blue with a distinctly denim character, gathering into a deeper indigo-leaning tone in the recessed areas between the lattice bars and lifting to a pale, chalky blue where the handspun wool took the dye more lightly. Those horizontal bands of lighter and darker blue are abrash, the natural signature of small dye lots and hand-spun yarn, and they keep a field this large from looking printed. Against it, the pattern is a warm beige that sits between oatmeal and soft cream, with a faint honey cast in the close-up frames where the light rakes across the pile. Tiny blue eyes are left inside the beige blossoms, which stitches the two colors together rather than letting them sit in flat opposition. The fringe and the flat-woven ends carry the same undyed beige. It is a genuinely quiet palette that works with oak, walnut, linen, brass and cool grey plaster, and it belongs with our other blue area rugs for anyone building a room around cool tones.

Peshawar Weaving and Quality

Peshawar in northern Pakistan is where the Chobi tradition is made, and it is one of the few places still producing hand-knotted goods at this width to a consistent standard. Chobi means wood, a reference to the plant and root dyes the workshops use, and the finished pieces are given a light wash that mellows the color without stripping the lanolin out of the wool. The yarn here is handspun rather than machine-spun, which is exactly why the surface has depth and why the dye varies slightly from row to row. Knotting is regular across all 214 inches of length, with no drawing-in at the sides and no waisting, which on a loom this wide takes an experienced team and months of work. This is a modern piece rather than an antique, and it is a good example of why serious buyers now treat contemporary weaving from this region as collectible in its own right, a distinction worth understanding if you are weighing what an Oriental rug actually is. See more in our modern and contemporary rug collection.