7'8" x 9'10" Chobi Peshawar Rug | Transitional Ogee Lattice | Natural Handspun Wool

This is a brand new, never used hand-knotted Oriental rug woven in the Chobi Peshawar tradition of northern Pakistan, with a natural handspun wool pile on a cotton foundation. Measuring 7'8" x 9'10", it sits squarely in the most requested 8x10 rug size, large enough to carry a full seating group or a 6 to 8 seat dining table. The handle is soft but substantial, the pile is level from edge to edge, and the ends are finished with hand-tied ivory fringe over a tight woven kilim band. Every rug we sell ships with a certificate of authenticity confirming it as a genuine hand-knotted piece.

Design and Motifs

The field carries a continuous ogee lattice, a grid of pointed oval compartments formed by broad scrolling vines that cross and link across the whole surface. Each compartment holds a large radiating palmette rosette, drawn with feathered petal tips and a small bud at the center, while the vines themselves are filled with tiny leaf and blossom work that you only read up close. Because the drawing repeats in every direction, this is a true all-over design with no central medallion, so the rug can be rotated or placed in any orientation without a wrong side. The border is deliberately narrow, little more than a thin band of stylized leaf forms, which keeps the eye on the field and makes the rug read as a calm textile rather than a framed picture.

A Soft Beige Palette With Tan and Pale Gold

Beige is the governing color, a warm sand tone that shifts between oatmeal and light honey depending on how the light crosses the pile. The lattice vines are drawn in a slightly deeper tan, the palmette centers in light brown with occasional cinnamon flecks, and the petal tips lift into pale gold where the handspun wool took the dye unevenly, which is exactly what gives the surface its gentle abrash movement. Nothing here is loud, there is no black, no red and no strong contrast, so the rug behaves like a neutral ground under walnut, oak, leather or linen upholstery. If you are building a quiet room scheme, it belongs with the rest of our beige and ivory rugs, and the back of the piece shows the same tones in paler form, confirming the color goes all the way through the knot.

Peshawar Weaving and Chobi Quality

Chobi takes its name from the word for wood, a reference to the plant and vegetable dye recipes these workshops revived around Peshawar in northern Pakistan. The weavers there work from the old Ziegler and Oushak cartoons but spin their own wool by hand, which is why the yarn has irregular thickness and a soft natural luster instead of the flat uniformity of machine-spun fiber. After the rug comes off the loom it is washed and clipped to a medium low pile, a finish that mellows the dyes and lets the lattice drawing sit clearly against the ground. The back shows straight, even rows and clean knot definition across all 9'10" of length, with tight selvages and no bulges or pulls, the marks of a well-tensioned loom and an experienced weaver.