8'10" x 9'4" Square Jaldar Bokhara Rug | Light Green Field with Burgundy Guls | New, Never Used

True square rugs are hard to find, and a square this clean is harder still. At 8'10" x 9'4" this Jaldar is close enough to a perfect square to sit beautifully under a round dining table or centered in a squared-off sitting room, and the design is drawn to be read from every side rather than from one end. The pile is 100% wool on a cotton foundation, hand-knotted row by row with a light green ground that is unusual for this family of weaving, where red and rust dominate. The rug is new and never used, with full even pile, straight sides, tight selvages and clean ivory fringe at both ends. Every rug we ship leaves Freeport with a certificate of authenticity recording its size, materials, construction and origin.

Design and Motifs

The Jaldar is a panel drawing: horizontal bands of stepped square guls separated by narrow woven stripes that run the full width of the field, so the layout reads like a grid of framed compartments. There are 6 rows of 5 guls, each gul built as a square medallion with a burgundy scalloped outline, a black or deep navy inner frame, a stepped diamond core and a small ivory center carrying a 4 petal rosette. Between the guls sit arrow and candelabra forms, hooked S shapes, paired rosettes and tiny crosses in salmon pink, burgundy and black, filler motifs that come straight out of the Turkoman repertoire. The result is an all-over repeat design with no central medallion, which is exactly why it works as a square: nothing is thrown off balance by the proportions. The borders do a lot of work here, with a wide main band of ivory and burgundy gul cartouches flanked by multiple guard stripes of beads, hooks and serrations, so the field is contained by 7 bands of pattern on each side. Anyone who likes a disciplined, repeating geometric rug will recognize the appeal immediately.

A Celadon Green Field Framed in Burgundy and Ivory

The ground is a light green, soft and slightly grayed, reading as celadon in cooler light and as pistachio or sage where the lamp falls warm. It is a quiet color with real depth, because the wool takes light differently along the lay of the pile and the field gently shifts tone as you walk around the rug. Against that pale green, the guls carry a true burgundy, not orange red, outlined by near black that gives each medallion a hard edge. Inside the medallions the palette softens into dusty rose, salmon pink and a warm tan, and each center is anchored by a chalk ivory square. The filler motifs repeat the same burgundy, black and salmon, which keeps the field cohesive instead of busy. In the borders, ivory becomes the dominant note for the first time, with cream cartouches and pink-brown palmettes set against dark red, so the frame reads warmer and heavier than the interior. The overall effect is cool and architectural in the center with a rich, antique-toned border, a combination that settles easily next to walnut and mahogany furniture, cream walls, or a room that already has green or deep red in the upholstery.

Woven in Pakistan in the Bokhara Tradition

Jaldar and Bokhara weaving in Pakistan traces back to Turkoman weavers who carried the gul, the stepped tribal medallion, west and south, and the workshops around Lahore have been producing this design to a consistent standard for decades. The back tag on this piece confirms 100% wool pile, hand-knotted, made in Pakistan, and the reverse shows what you want to see in a good Jaldar: small, regular knots, a firm cotton foundation, crisp outlines on every gul, and straight bands with no drift across nearly 9 feet of width. That density is what lets the weaver draw a stepped medallion cleanly at this small scale and keep 30 of them identical. The wool is the other half of the story, spun with enough body to hold a plush pile and enough luster to carry a pale green dye without looking flat. This is a well made contemporary Oriental rug in a format you rarely see offered, a genuine square in an unexpected color, in perfect unused condition.