8' x 10' Chobi Peshawar Rug | Olive Green All Over Floral Lattice | Hand-Knotted Natural Wool

This is a new Chobi Peshawar piece, hand-knotted in natural hand-spun wool on a cotton foundation, and it belongs to the family of workshop weaving that revived the old Ziegler and Sultanabad drawing for modern rooms. The field carries a quiet all over lattice rather than a central medallion, which is exactly why a rug like this settles into a furnished room instead of competing with it, and at 8' x 10' it sits in the most useful footprint we sell, large enough to hold a full seating group on the pile. The wool has the dry, slightly lustrous handle of hand-spun yarn, the pile reads dense and even in the rolled and folded shots, and the selvages and fringe are clean with no wear anywhere on the piece. Every rug we ship travels with a certificate of authenticity confirming that it is genuinely hand-knotted, along with its size, materials and origin. If you are comparing formats, our 8 x 10 area rugs collection shows how this scale works against different palettes, and the difference between this type of piece and a Persian weave is explained in our guide to Persian rugs versus Oriental rugs.

Design and Motifs

The field is built from a repeating lattice of brown and rust scrolling leaf forms that link corner to corner, and inside each opening sits either a peach 8 petal star rosette or a small framed cartouche holding a tighter rosette. The two alternate down every row, so the eye keeps finding a second rhythm inside the first. There are no reserve panels and no medallion, which is the classic all over rug layout: the pattern simply continues to the border and is cut by it, the way Sultanabad workshop weaving has always handled repeats. The main border is broader than you usually see on a rug this size, a run of large lobed palmettes on an ivory and camel ground, each one filled with a small flower head and separated by half rosettes. Two narrow guard stripes of connected vine and reciprocal comb motifs frame it on either side, and the whole thing is closed by a plain dark olive outer band that gives the piece its finished edge in the corner photographs.

A Study in Olive Green, Brown and Rust

The dominant color is an olive green, not a bright one, closer to sage and moss where the light hits the pile and deeper toward gray green in the shaded passes. Over it, the lattice is drawn in a muted brown that leans rosewood in places and rust in others, with thin gold and ochre outlines picking out the scrolls so the drawing stays legible against the darker ground. The rosettes are pale peach and soft apricot with tiny green and brown centers, and a few are almost ivory, which lifts the whole field. The border swings warmer: a camel and ivory ground carrying palmettes in olive, antique gold and faded rose, all pencilled in brown. Abrash, the natural banding that comes with hand-spun and small-lot dyed wool, is visible across the field in gentle horizontal shifts, and it is a mark of authentic hand-knotted work rather than a fault. Against gray or pale wood floors, as shown in the room photographs, the palette reads as warm neutral earth tone rather than as a strong green.

Peshawar Weaving and the Quality of the Knot

Peshawar in northern Pakistan has become one of the most important centers for hand-knotted Oriental rugs made to old workshop patterns, and Chobi work is its signature: hand-spun wool, restrained dyeing, and drawing taken from 19th century Sultanabad and Ziegler cartoons. The back of this rug, visible in the folded corner shot, shows a tight and regular knot line with the pattern crisply readable from the reverse, which is the honest test of a good weave, and the cotton warp and weft give it the flat, stable lay you want under furniture. The pile is cut at a medium height, heavy enough to feel substantial underfoot and short enough to keep the fine outlines of the palmettes sharp. It is brand new, never laid in a home, with perfect selvages, an even surface and no repairs anywhere on the piece.