7'9" x 9'10" Chobi Peshawar Oriental Rug | All-Over Floral Design | Handspun Wool, Excellent Condition

This is a hand-knotted Chobi Peshawar in a true room size of 7'9" x 9'10", woven in handspun wool on a cotton foundation and finished with the soft, slightly faded surface that collectors look for in this group. The field is a deep chocolate brown, unusual for a floral rug of this type, and it carries an all-over drawing of palmettes, serrated leaves and rosettes in dusty rose, raspberry, ivory and old gold. It is an Oriental rug in excellent condition with full, even pile and straight sides, and it ships with a certificate of authenticity confirming it as a genuine hand-knotted piece. At this size it settles neatly into the role most buyers shopping 8x10 Oriental rugs have in mind, covering the main seating area with a comfortable walking margin on all 4 sides.

Design and Motifs

There is no medallion here. The weaver worked a mirrored all-over floral repeat built on a thin vine lattice, so the pattern reads continuously from one end to the other and the rug can be turned without looking wrong. Large crowned palmettes and broad sickle leaves anchor the center column, flanked by fan-shaped serrated palmettes and by big 8 petal rosettes with dark centers along the ends. Smaller stars, tulips and cruciform blossoms fill the ground between the heavy elements, which keeps the brown field from reading as empty. The border system is the most distinctive part of the rug: a wide stepped and zigzag main band, drawn almost like a flatweave, enclosed by narrow outer guards of blossom and leaf in pale green. That geometric border against curvilinear field drawing is what makes the piece transitional rather than strictly traditional, and it is the reason it sits comfortably in a modern room.

Color Palette: Chocolate Brown, Rose and Sage

The ground is a dark chocolate brown with an aubergine cast where the light catches the wool, and it shifts noticeably between the overhead and angled photographs, which is normal for handspun yarn with this much abrash. Against it, the drawing runs through a muted warm range: dusty rose and salmon in the large sickle leaves, deeper raspberry and wine in the palmette outlines and in the main border, cream and clotted ivory in the rosettes and in the big cloud-band leaves, and old gold or camel in the secondary blossoms. Cool relief comes from the sage and celadon green of the outer border and from small gray-green accents scattered through the blossom centers, with occasional charcoal and smoky brown in the rosette hearts. The overall effect is low contrast and soft, not bright, so it works with warm neutral walls, walnut and oak floors, and leather or linen upholstery. Nothing in the palette fights a room that already has pattern in it.

Peshawar Weaving and the Chobi Tradition

Chobi rugs are woven in and around Peshawar in northern Pakistan, where workshops rebuilt the classical floral repertoire using handspun wool and soft, muted dye tones instead of the hard synthetic brights that dominated commercial production in the late 20th century. The name refers to that restrained, wood-toned coloring, and the best examples, like this one, are knotted tightly enough to hold fine curved drawing in the palmettes and vine while keeping the thick, hard-wearing handle that comes from local mountain wool. Looking at the ruler photograph, the pile is dense and even, the knots are regular across the width, and the selvedge and end finishing are clean and tight, all signs of workshop rather than casual village production. Peshawar weaving is now one of the most dependable sources of serious hand-knotted floor rugs at this scale, and a 7'9" x 9'10" example in excellent condition with full pile is a piece you buy once and use for decades.