14' x 14'2" Square Chobi Rug | Ivory Field & Chocolate Border | Vegetable Dye Hand-Knotted Wool

A true square at 14' x 14'2", this hand-knotted Chobi is the kind of piece that gets woven once and then waits years for the right room. The loom had to be set nearly 14 feet wide, the weavers worked the full width by hand across every row, and the pile is dense enough that the rug sits flat and heavy the moment it is unrolled. Every color in it comes from vegetable dyes, which is what gives the ivory field its slightly uneven, candlelit glow instead of a flat printed tone. It is one of the few genuinely square options in our oversized rugs group, and it ships with a certificate of authenticity confirming the hand-knotted construction, wool pile and origin.

Design and Motifs

The drawing is built outward from a single 8 point star medallion set in chocolate brown, with an ivory rosette core ringed by small dagger tips and 4 large petals filled with serrated leaves. That medallion sits inside a stepped ivory cartouche, and above and below it two rust red pendants reach into the field like fern heads. The open ivory ground around it is not empty: it carries a loose lattice of flowering vine, lotus palmettes, curled saz leaves and small budding sprays, drawn with enough space between elements that each motif reads clearly from standing height. Camel gold spandrels fill the 4 corners with scrolling cloudband arabesques and a single upright blossom in each. The main border runs chocolate brown with alternating rosettes and leaf palmettes joined by a thin vine, framed on both sides by gold guard bands of turtle and blossom repeats. Because the rug is square, the layout resolves perfectly on all 4 sides, with no stretched or truncated repeat anywhere in the border run.

Color Palette and Vegetable Dyes

Beige is the honest headline color, but it works across several registers here. The field reads as warm ivory to cream, lifting toward oatmeal where the light catches the pile and settling into a soft sand tone in shadow. The spandrels and guard borders shift up into camel gold with an olive cast, which is the same dye family that carries the outer minor border and the fringe end. Against that, the main border and the medallion ground are a deep chocolate brown with a plum undertone, and it is that brown that gives the rug its weight and keeps the whole thing from drifting into blandness. Scattered through the field and the border are the accent colors that make a vegetable dyed piece worth studying up close: brick and rust red in the pendants and rosette centers, several distinct blues from pale sky to deep petrol in the small leaves, and a quiet sage green in the leaf forms. The abrash, the natural banding that happens when dye lots vary slightly, is gentle and even, exactly what you want to see as proof the yarns were dyed in small batches rather than machine matched.

Origin and Weaving Quality

This rug is made in India, which is where most of the world's best contemporary hand-knotted weaving now happens. The Chobi style, with its vegetable dyes and softened traditional drawing, has been refined in Indian workshops over the last few decades into something consistently excellent: highland wool spun by hand, dyed in small lots, knotted on a cotton warp and then clipped to a medium pile that shows the outlines cleanly. The back photo shows tight, regular knotting with no skipped rows and a straight, hand-finished selvage on all 4 sides, which on a piece this wide is the real test of the workshop. If you are weighing the difference between a piece like this and a village weave from Persia, our guide on what separates a Persian rug from an Oriental rug covers exactly that ground. Square rugs this size are rarely woven on speculation, and finding one in excellent, never used condition at 14' x 14'2" is unusual.