8'10" x 11'10" Chobi Oriental Rug | Vegetable Dyed Ivory Field | Traditional All Over Floral | Made in India

This is a hand-knotted Chobi in the room size most American homes actually need, measuring 8'10" x 11'10" and sitting comfortably in the family of 9x12 area rugs. The pile is hand-spun wool on a cotton foundation, colored with vegetable dyes that have been softened deliberately so the beige ground reads as warm parchment rather than bright white. The field carries an all over floral drawing, the border is a deep brick red, and the whole piece is quiet enough to live under furniture for decades without fighting the room. Condition is excellent and never used, and it ships with a certificate of authenticity confirming it as a genuine hand-knotted piece.

Design and Motifs

The field is a classic all over floral design built on a lattice of thin scrolling vines that never quite repeat the same way twice. Large fan-shaped palmettes anchor the center line, flanked by 8 petal rosettes and split leaf forms in gold, rust and slate blue, with smaller tulips, carnations and cloud-band leaves filling the spaces between. There is no central medallion, which is exactly why a rug like this works so well under a dining table or a sectional: the pattern reads evenly no matter how much of it is covered. The main border runs a procession of leafy palmettes and shield-shaped cartouches, separated by 2 narrow guard stripes of ivory and sage that pick up a running flower vine. All 4 corners resolve cleanly, a detail worth noting because corner resolution is where hurried weaving usually shows.

Beige Ground and Vegetable Dyed Color

The ground color is a warm beige that shifts between sand and pale ivory depending on where the light falls, with the faint horizontal variation that natural dye lots always produce in hand-spun wool. Against it the border sits in a muted brick red, closer to old terracotta than to fire engine, with the dye drawing slightly darker along the outer edge. The floral work brings in antique gold, honey amber, soft sage green, dusty rose and a restrained navy that appears mostly in the outlines of the palmettes and in the small shield motifs of the border. A pale celadon outer stripe frames the whole rug and keeps the red from ending abruptly. It is a neutral palette in the truest sense, warm rather than gray, and it sits easily with walnut, oak, cream upholstery and darker leather.

Indian Weaving and Chobi Quality

India is where most of the world's good contemporary hand-knotted work is now made, and Chobi weaving is the clearest proof of it. The name refers to the vegetable dye process, and the workshops that produce this grade spin their own wool by hand, dye it in small lots, then wash the finished rug to knock the colors back to the mellow tone seen here. The knotting in the corner and ruler photographs is even, the pile is clipped at a medium height that shows the drawing without flattening it, and the selvedges and fringe are tight and undamaged. If you are weighing this against other traditional pieces, our guide to the difference between a Persian rug and an Oriental rug explains exactly where a hand-knotted Indian Chobi like this one belongs.