2'6" x 17'8" Chobi Peshawar Runner Rug | All-Over Floral Vine | Soft Beige Hand-Knotted Wool

This is an unusually long runner, 17'8" from end to end and only 30" wide, hand-knotted in wool on a cotton foundation in the Chobi tradition of Peshawar. Runners of this length are made to order for a reason: most corridors stop short of 12 feet, and a weaver will not put a loom to work for 18 feet unless the piece is wanted. The drawing runs the full length without an interruption or a repeated join, the pile is close cut and even, the selvedges are tight, and the rug has never been on a floor. It ships with a certificate of authenticity confirming it is a genuine hand-knotted piece, along with free shipping and free returns to all 50 states. For the buyer measuring a long entry hall or a staircase landing, this is the size that is hardest to find and the one worth holding onto once you have it.

Design and Motifs

The field carries a loose all-over floral design built on a slow vine that climbs the length of the runner rather than repeating in tight blocks. Broad palmettes sit at intervals along the center line, flanked by serrated leaves, small rosettes and half-open blossoms that fill the ground without crowding it. The drawing is deliberately open, which is what gives a Chobi its calm: there is as much bare field as there is ornament. A single wide main border of linked flowerheads and curling leaf tips frames the whole piece, held between narrow guard stripes of running vine on each side. Because the runner is so long and so narrow, the border does most of the visual work, drawing the eye down the corridor and keeping the pattern from reading as busy underfoot.

A Beige Palette With Sage and Gold Undertones

The ground is a soft beige that carries a faint sage-green cast in daylight, cooler than a straight cream and warmer than a gray. Against it the motifs are drawn in tan, wheat and soft gold, with pale celadon and touches of muted terracotta in the leaf tips and blossom centers. The border shifts a shade lighter than the field, closer to ivory, which is what separates the frame from the ground without any hard contrast anywhere in the rug. Nothing in this palette shouts. It is a rug built to sit under existing furniture and existing wall color, and it works as well against white trim and oak flooring as it does against darker paneling. The soft, low-contrast coloring also hides traffic patterning better than a saturated field, which matters in a hallway that gets walked every day.

Peshawar Weaving and Chobi Quality

Chobi rugs are woven in and around Peshawar in northern Pakistan, where workshops draw on older Ziegler and Oushak layouts and finish them in the muted, washed palette the style is known for. The work is genuine hand-knotting on a cotton warp and weft, with a handspun wool pile that takes color unevenly on purpose, giving the subtle tonal movement visible across this field. Peshawar is one of the strongest centers for this kind of Oriental rug today, particularly for oversized and odd-size commissions that other markets will not attempt, and an 18 foot runner is exactly that kind of commission. Woven this long and this narrow, the piece belongs in the category of long hallway runners that buyers usually search for months without finding in the right width.