6'11" x 8'5" Bokhara Oriental Rug | Cream Geometric Gul Lattice | New, Never Used

This 6'11" x 8'5" Bokhara is a hand-knotted wool piece in the classic Turkoman idiom, and it is the kind of Oriental rug that works in a room without arguing with anything else in it. The field is a warm cream, close to undyed lambswool in tone, and it is filled edge to edge with a disciplined diamond lattice of guls. The pile is thick and springy, the back is evenly knotted, and the ivory fringe at both ends is full and untouched. It has never been on a floor. Every rug we ship carries a certificate of authenticity confirming that it is hand-knotted and describing exactly what you own.

Design and Motifs

The field is drawn as a continuous diamond trellis, with every compartment holding its own small stepped gul. The weaver alternates two motifs across the rows: a squared, quartered gul built in concentric outlines, and an 8 point star rosette with a tiny open center. Between the lattice lines sit hooked leaf tips and paired dots that keep the cream ground from ever looking empty. The framing is unusually generous for this format, with 7 distinct bands running around the field, the widest carrying a row of hooked octagons and the narrower guards carrying chevrons and reciprocal saw-tooth edging. It is a strictly geometric rug, drawn entirely in straight lines and steps, with no curved vine anywhere on it.

A Cream Field with Rust, Taupe and Grey-Blue

The ground is a soft cream that shifts toward light camel where the pile catches the light, which is why this piece belongs with ivory and beige rugs rather than true whites. Inside the guls the palette is restrained and slightly smoky: muted taupe and cocoa brown do most of the structural drawing, outlined in dense black that gives each motif its crispness. Against that, rust and terracotta supply the warmth, appearing as small hooks, dots and the saw-tooth tips along the outer guard. The quiet surprise is the grey-blue, a dusty slate tone used in the rosette petals and repeated through the border bands, which cools the whole rug just enough to keep the browns from reading heavy. The overall effect from standing height is a single warm neutral, with the color only revealing itself up close.

Woven in Pakistan in the Bokhara Tradition

The Bokhara pattern descends from the Turkoman weaving groups of Central Asia, whose repeating gul fields were the tribal signature long before the design became a workshop staple. Today the finest examples are woven in Pakistan, where families carried the tradition and refined it on cotton warps with tightly spun wool. This one is workshop quality rather than village work: the lattice holds true across the full 8'5" length, the rows do not drift, and the 7 border bands turn each of the 4 corners cleanly, which is the detail that separates a well drafted Bokhara from an ordinary one. The back photo shows small, even knots and clear definition of every motif, and the wool has the dense, slightly waxy handle that wears well over decades.