8'5" x 13'2" Chobi Peshawar Rug | Chotan Geometric Design | Soft Teal Blue & Beige, New

Hand-knotted in Peshawar from hand-spun natural wool, this 8'5" x 13'2" Chobi rug reads as a quiet, sun-softened antique while being completely new and never walked on. The pile is clipped low, about 1/4", so the angular drawing stays crisp and the rug lies flat under furniture without bulk. Every knot is tied by hand on a cotton foundation, and the back seen in the photographs shows a steady, even knot count from selvedge to selvedge. This is a genuine handmade Oriental rug, not a machine-made reproduction, and it ships with a certificate of authenticity documenting its origin, materials and construction.

Design and Motifs

The field carries a Chotan layout: a staggered grid of 15 medallions alternating between ivory octagons filled with hooked bracket devices and stepped taupe crosses centered on small 8 petal rosettes. Between them sit slender feathered tree and cypress sprays in apricot and pale celadon, the kind of quiet filler drawing that keeps a large field from going flat. Because the repeat has no single center, the composition works in any direction, which matters in a room this size where the rug is viewed from several seats. The border system is unusually deep for an all over design, running a wide ivory main band of arrowhead and tent-pole figures flanked by rosette stripes, meander ribbons and fine reciprocal guard lines, 7 bands in total between field and fringe. Collectors looking for geometric rugs with real drawing discipline will recognize the care taken in keeping every stepped outline square to the weave.

A Soft Teal Blue Field With Beige, Taupe and Apricot

The ground is a soft teal blue, closer to sea glass than to navy, with gentle abrash moving through the field so the color breathes rather than sits as one flat tone. Against it the octagons read warm ivory to sandy beige, and the stepped medallions are a muted mushroom taupe outlined in dark walnut brown. Apricot and faded peach do all the accent work, appearing in the small crosses at the medallion centers, in the tree sprays and in the rosettes of the outer stripes. The wide main border is the palest element, a bone and oatmeal ground that lifts the blue field and gives the rug a light overall cast in daylight. There is no black and no bright red anywhere, which is why the palette settles easily against oak floors, linen upholstery, warm grey walls and both brass and brushed nickel.

Peshawar Weaving and the Chotan Tradition

Peshawar in northwest Pakistan has become one of the most important hand-knotting centers in the world, its workshops built on generations of weaving knowledge and known for hand-spun wool, natural and vegetable-based dyes and a gentle wash that mellows the colors before the rug ever leaves the loom. Chotan refers to the old Khotan layout of the Central Asian oasis towns, the staggered octagon and stepped medallion grid these weavers have adapted at a larger, more open scale. The weave here is tight and regular, the selvedges are wrapped firmly by hand and the ends are finished with hand-tied cotton fringe, all of which you can see in the corner and back photographs. At 8'5" x 13'2" with a low, dense pile, it is built for a real room and for decades of use.