6' x 13'5" Chobi Peshawar Rug | Gallery Size All Over Floral | Brown and Ivory, Excellent Condition

Gallery proportions are the hardest size to find and the easiest to place: at 6' x 13'5" this Chobi Peshawar covers a long seating run, a wide entry gallery or a narrow dining room without the design being cut off by furniture. The pile is hand-knotted wool on a cotton foundation, cropped at a medium height so the drawing stays legible, and the handle is supple enough to roll and carry by hand rather than by forklift. Condition is excellent, with full pile edge to edge, intact ivory selvages and even fringe at both ends, as shown in the corner and folded-back photographs. It ships with a certificate of authenticity confirming the hand-knotted construction, the wool pile and the Peshawar origin.

Design and Motifs

There is no medallion here. Instead the weaver worked an all over floral design that repeats up the full 13'5" length and mirrors itself across the vertical center line, which is why the two halves of each row of blossoms answer each other so precisely in the close-up photographs. The vocabulary is the classical one: large lobed palmettes, 8 petal rosettes, long serrated leaves that curl like scimitars, small tulip and carnation buds, and a thin undulating vine that ties every element back to the next. Drawing like this needs room to breathe, and the gallery length gives it 4 full repeats of the main floral row. The main border is an ivory ground carrying a meandering vine with alternating palmettes and cartouche-shaped rosettes, framed on both sides by narrow guard stripes of small 4 petal flowers set on a pale ground, with the corners resolved cleanly rather than broken mid-motif.

Color: Warm Brown Field, Ivory Border, Rust Accents

The field is a warm mid brown that shifts as you walk the length of it, reading mushroom and taupe under direct light at one end and drifting toward a deeper olive brown at the other. Those horizontal striations are abrash, the natural variation between dye lots of hand-spun wool, and they are the single feature that keeps a large neutral field from looking flat or machine-made. Over that brown the florals are drawn in ivory, cream and straw gold, with rust and brick terracotta used for the outlines and flower centers, soft gray-blue sparingly placed in leaves and inner petals, and dark charcoal-brown reserved for fine outlining and the occasional small bud. The main border is the lightest value in the rug, a buttery ivory to pale straw that lifts the whole piece and stops the brown field from closing in. For a decorator the net effect is a warm neutral that sits comfortably with walnut, leather, bronze and almost any wall color from ivory to deep green.

Peshawar Origin and Weaving Quality

Chobi weaving is centered on Peshawar in northwest Pakistan, where workshops knot wool pile onto cotton warps and then wash the finished rug to soften the palette into the muted earth tones this piece shows. The back, visible in the measured photograph, reads clearly: straight rows, consistent knot size and no slack areas, which is what allows a 13'5" length to lie flat without waves. The wool is the real argument for this weave, soft to the hand with a light sheen that catches in the ivory and gold tones, and dense enough underfoot to take traffic in a hall or along a sofa line. If you are weighing this against other weaves, our guide on what separates a Persian from a broader Oriental rug explains where Chobi Peshawar work sits in the handmade market and why its classical drawing travels so well in contemporary rooms.