19'1" x 27'7" Chobi Peshawar Oriental Rug | Burgundy All-Over Floral | Silky Ghazni Wool

This is a palace piece in the literal sense: 19'1" x 27'7" of hand-knotted Ghazni wool, woven on a loom more than 19 feet wide and finished as one continuous field with no seams. The drawing is a classic Chobi all-over, big open palmettes and serrated leaves floating on a deep burgundy ground inside a wide ivory border, and the wool has the low silky luster that Ghazni fleece takes when it is hand-spun and clipped at medium height. Pieces this large are commissioned rather than stocked, and they are almost never available in excellent, ready-to-lay condition. It ships with a certificate of authenticity, and despite the weight it moves free of freight surcharges to all 50 states. If you are shopping oversize rugs for a great room, ballroom or double-height hall, this is the scale that actually fills the floor.

Design and Motifs

The field runs an all-over floral lattice rather than a central medallion, which is the right choice at this length because the pattern reads correctly from any doorway. Large fan-shaped palmettes and split lotus heads alternate with rounded flowerheads down the length, linked by thin scrolling vines and long serrated acanthus leaves that curl back on themselves. Between the big forms sit small 8 petal rosettes and tiny buds that keep the burgundy ground from ever looking empty. The wide main border carries a procession of leafy palmettes and sprays on an ivory ground, turned cleanly at all 4 corners with a large rosette anchoring each one, and it is framed by narrow guard stripes of connected rosette chains and a dark outer stripe that gives the whole rug a firm edge. It is a formal, symmetrical drawing executed with soft curved outlines rather than village angles, and the close-up photographs show how carefully each leaf tip is outlined in a darker tone so the motif lifts off the field.

Burgundy Field, Ivory Border and Sage Green Accents

The ground is a deep burgundy, closer to aged claret than to bright red, and it shifts gently between warmer wine and cooler oxblood as the light moves across the pile. Against it the drawing sits in a graded family of ivory, cream, champagne and honey gold, with the largest palmettes reading nearly white at their centers and dropping into tan and soft blush toward the petal edges. Quiet sage green appears in some of the leaves and in the shading of the border ground, which is what keeps the palette from turning purely red and gold. Outlines are worked in espresso brown and near-black, and the outer stripe uses the same dark tone so the border feels weighted. The corner and back photographs show the full range clearly, including the small dark rosettes scattered through the guard stripes. It is a warm, low-contrast scheme that works with mahogany, walnut and antique brass, and it forgives heavy traffic because the field tone is deep.

Peshawar Weaving and Ghazni Wool

Chobi weaving is centered on the Peshawar workshops of northwest Pakistan, where Afghan weaving families settled and brought their handling of highland wool with them. The pile here is Ghazni wool from the Afghan central highlands, prized because the fiber is long, strong and naturally lustrous, and because it takes dye with a softness that machine-spun yarn never manages. It is knotted onto a cotton foundation and clipped at a medium height that leaves the silky surface intact while keeping the outlines crisp. The reverse, shown alongside a ruler in the last photograph, is even and tightly packed across the full 229 inch width, which matters enormously on a rug this long, since any drift in tension on a 27 foot warp shows up as a crooked edge. Two or more weavers work side by side for years on a piece at this scale. It is honest, durable, workshop-grade weaving, and it is a good example of why a modern Oriental rug from this region competes with far older classical pieces on floor presence.