8'3" x 10' Chobi Peshawar Rug | Sultanabad All-Over Design | Handspun Natural Wool, Brand New

This is a brand new, never used Chobi Peshawar in one of the most usable room sizes we stock, and the reason it stops people is the color: a quiet sage-green field with a golden cast, drawn over with coral and soft brown flowers that look like they have already spent thirty years in a sunlit room. The pile is handspun natural wool, dyed with plant-based colors, and the weave is dense and flat with a low even clip that shows every outline cleanly. At 8'3" x 10' it covers a standard seating group with all four furniture legs on the wool, which is why 8x10 hand-knotted rugs are the single most requested format we handle. Every rug we ship carries a certificate of authenticity confirming it is genuinely hand-knotted, along with its size, materials and origin.

Design and Motifs

The drawing follows the classic Sultanabad formula: no central medallion, just a broad all-over floral design built from thick arabesque vines that swing across the field in mirrored pairs. Large coral palmettes sit at the vertical axis, flanked by 6 petal and 8 petal rosettes in brick red, cream and olive, with serrated acanthus leaves curling between them. A small ivory rosette marks the center point where the two halves of the pattern meet. The main border runs a repeating sequence of leaf cartouches and shield-shaped palmettes in burgundy, olive and dull gold on a lighter gold ground, framed by narrow coral guard stripes and a minor rosette stripe on both sides. Everything is outlined in a darker brown that keeps the softer tones from blurring together, and the 4 corners resolve cleanly rather than being cut off, which is a sign the weavers worked from a properly scaled cartoon.

Color: Sage Green, Coral and Warm Gold

The field is a muted pistachio green that shifts toward honey gold depending on which direction you walk around it, the natural result of handspun wool taking plant dye unevenly from strand to strand. Against that ground the flowers read in salmon and coral, with deeper accents of burgundy and chestnut brown in the palmette centers and leaf tips. The border lightens to a sandy gold, almost champagne, and the guard stripes pick the coral back up so the frame never goes flat. Small touches of sage-celadon and ivory appear in the leafwork, and the fringe is natural ivory cotton. This is a low-contrast, warm neutral rug: it sits comfortably with cream walls, oak and walnut furniture, brass, and leather, and it will not fight an existing color scheme the way a red and navy piece does.

Peshawar Weaving and Chobi Quality

Chobi, from the word for wood, refers to the plant and vegetable dyes used in these rugs, and Peshawar in northwest Pakistan is where the best of them are woven. The looms there work with highland Ghazni wool, a long-staple fleece with a high lanolin content that spins by hand into a slightly irregular yarn and takes dye in the soft tonal bands you see across this field. Knotting is done on a cotton foundation with the pile clipped low so the drawing stays crisp, and the finished rug is washed to settle the colors into that mellow antique tone. Peshawar work in this quality is among the strongest hand-knotted weaving being produced anywhere today, and if you are weighing it against other traditional options our guide on the difference between a Persian and an Oriental rug is worth a read. This one has never been on a floor.