8'11" x 11'9" Chobi Peshawar Oriental Rug | Diamond Lattice Field | Soft Multi Color Wool

This is a big, quiet room rug: 8'11" x 11'9" of hand-knotted wool in camel gold, faded terracotta and washed blue, with a lattice of diamond panels running edge to edge. The pile has the low, dry, slightly lustrous handle that Chobi Peshawar weaving is known for, and the finishing wash has pulled the palette back so nothing in the field shouts. At this footprint it lands in the 9x12 Oriental rugs class, the size most people need when a sofa group or a 8 seat dining table has to sit fully on the rug. Condition is excellent, the ends and sides are intact, and the rug ships with a certificate of authenticity confirming it as a hand-knotted piece.

Design and Motifs

The field is set out as an all-over lattice design rather than a single medallion, so there is no strong center and the pattern can be cut visually by furniture without losing its logic. Diamond compartments repeat across the width, each one filled with a palmette or a serrated leaf spray, and the diamonds alternate in tone so the grid reads as a soft checkerboard from across the room. Slender vines link one panel to the next, and small rosettes sit at the junctions. The main border is broad and floral, a turning vine carrying large blossoms and curled leaves, framed on both sides by narrow guard stripes of tiny linked flowerheads. Drawing is curvilinear throughout, with rounded petals and flowing stems instead of the angular village line, and the corners of the border resolve cleanly rather than being cut off mid motif.

A Multi Color Palette of Camel, Terracotta and Powder Blue

The ground moves between wheat gold and warm camel, with gentle abrash banding that lightens toward the ends and keeps the large field from looking flat or machine even. Inside the lattice, panels alternate between a muted terracotta that reads salmon in daylight, a deeper tobacco brown, and an ivory beige that carries most of the highlight. The accent color, and the reason the rug works next to cooler decor, is a soft powder blue: it appears in the interiors of certain diamonds, in scattered leaf forms, and again in the border blossoms, where it cools the surrounding golds. Olive and grey green run through the vine work, and the outer border sits on a pale sand ground so the rug finishes lighter than its center. This is a genuinely neutral multi color rug, warm overall, with enough coral and blue inside it to pick up upholstery rather than fight it.

Peshawar Weaving and the Chobi Tradition

Peshawar, in northwestern Pakistan, is one of the most important hand-knotting centers working today, and the Chobi group is its best known output. The name points to the wood and plant based dyeing the workshops build their palette around, which is why these pieces age into soft, sun warmed tones instead of hard primaries. This one is knotted on a cotton foundation with a wool pile, and the folded back corner in the photographs shows an even, well packed knot with the pattern reading as clearly from behind as from the front, a fair test of an honest Oriental rug. Selvedges are tight, the fringes are the warps of the rug itself rather than an applied trim, and the pile is trimmed low, which suits a lattice this detailed and makes a piece of this size practical under chair legs and heavy traffic.