8' x 21'9" Red Chobi Peshawar Runner Rug | All-Over Floral Vine Design | Hand-Knotted Wool, New

This is a gallery-length runner rather than a narrow hall strip: 8 feet across and just under 22 feet long, hand-knotted in wool on a cotton foundation by weavers in Peshawar, northern Pakistan. The full 8' x 21'9" field runs deep red under a continuous floral vine, held inside a wide ivory border that lifts the whole piece rather than closing it in. Pieces this long belong with oversized rugs in practical terms, because length, not pattern, is what decides where it goes. The pile is new, never walked on, and the rug ships with a certificate of authenticity.

Design and Motifs

There is no medallion here. Instead the weaver ran a thin, curling vine the length of the field and hung the drawing off it: broad ivory palmettes on the center line, long serrated leaves that reach almost to the guard stripes, small 8 petal rosettes and star flowers scattered between them, and little curled buds that read almost like birds in the close-up photographs. That is a classic all-over floral design, and it is the right choice for a rug this long, since the pattern repeats and travels instead of asking for one viewing point. The main border carries its own meandering vine with open rosettes, flanked by narrow guard stripes of small cross flowers and tiny red dots that pick the field color back up at the edge.

The Red Field, Ivory Border and Soft Gold Accents

The field is a warm brick red that moves between rust and a deeper tomato tone as the light crosses it, with the gentle horizontal variation you expect from hand-spun wool taken from different dye lots. Against it the drawing is beige and cream, warmed in places to honey gold on the palmette centers and cooled in others by a pale, chalky light green on a handful of leaves and rosette hearts. The wide main border is a quiet cream, several shades softer than the motifs inside it, so the eye reads border, then field, then pattern in that order. Buyers hunting through red and burgundy rugs will find this one sits on the warm, softened side of red rather than the hard primary side.

Peshawar Weaving and the Chobi Tradition

Peshawar is one of the serious hand-knotting centers still working at scale, and the Chobi group is its best-known output: hand-spun wool, muted dye palettes and the flowing Ziegler style drawing that made these rugs a staple of the American market. Quality lives in the wool and the beat-down rather than in an extreme knot count, and the back photograph shows an even, disciplined weave with straight rows and a firm handle, which is what keeps a runner this long lying flat. If you are weighing this against other handmade options, our guide on what separates a Persian rug from an Oriental rug is worth reading before you decide. Finished with hand-overcast sides and ivory fringe, this one is ready to lay down as it is.