7'10" x 10'6" Chobi Peshawar Rug | Antique Medallion Design | Natural Wool | Never Used

This 7'10" x 10'6" Chobi Peshawar is a recent weaving that has never been put down on a floor, and it is the quiet kind of Oriental rug that decorators keep coming back for. The drawing is copied from antique room-size medallion pieces, but the palette has been pulled right down into beige, tan and a soft grey-blue, so the pattern reads as texture from across a room rather than as a loud statement. The pile is natural wool, hand-knotted on a cotton foundation, with flat-lying wool that already carries a gentle sheen under lamplight. Every rug we ship leaves with a certificate of authenticity confirming it is genuinely hand-knotted.

Design and Motifs

A single diamond medallion sits at the center of an otherwise open field, its cusped outline drawn in brown and filled with small 4 petal rosettes, slender leaves and curling vine that never crowd the ground behind them. Above and below the medallion, a chain of 3 stepped pendants tapers out toward the ends, each one a miniature of the larger form. The 4 corners carry broad quartered spandrels filled with leafy vinework and blossoms, and they arc inward so that the plain field is shaped into a soft oval, the same device antique weavers used to make a big rug feel calm. The main border runs palmettes and rust-outlined lozenge cartouches on a pale tan ground, held between narrow guard stripes of diagonal barber-pole banding and a small leaf meander. In an 8x11 room size, that mix of an empty center and a busy border is exactly what keeps furniture from fighting the pattern, which is why buyers searching 8x11 area rugs gravitate to this layout.

A Beige Field With Soft Light Blue Corners

The field is a warm beige that shifts between sand and pale ivory as the light moves across it, with the faint horizontal banding of hand-spun, hand-dyed wool visible in the close-up shots. Against it, the corner spandrels are a muted grey-blue, closer to a weathered denim or old porcelain than to any bright blue, and the vines inside them are picked out in cream, sage and soft gold. The medallion is a deeper tan and camel, outlined in brown, with tiny accents of dusty blue and a scattering of rust-orange dots that supply the only real warmth in the piece. The borders repeat the same tan and blue-grey, so the whole rug stays within one family of tones from end to end. Anyone furnishing around oak floors, linen upholstery or plaster walls will find this sits with them immediately, and it belongs squarely in the beige and ivory rugs group.

Peshawar Weaving and Chobi Quality

Peshawar, in northwestern Pakistan, has become one of the most reliable sources of good hand-knotted work in the world, built on generations of weaving families who settled there and kept the old loom traditions intact. Chobi pieces from those workshops are known for hand-spun wool, softly muted dye lots and antique-inspired cartoons drawn from 19th century originals, which is precisely what you are looking at here. The back photograph shows an even, clearly defined knot across the whole width with no pulled rows or slack tension, and the selvedges and cotton fringe are clean and tight, the marks of a properly finished loom piece rather than a rushed one. The wool has been left with enough body to take furniture legs and daily traffic, and because the rug is unused, the pile is still at full height.