8' x 9'10" Chobi Oriental Rug | Burgundy Brown Field, Ivory Floral Border | Hand-Knotted Wool, Made in India

This 8' x 9'10" Chobi is a full room-size piece, hand-knotted in wool on a cotton foundation with a deep burgundy brown field and a generous ivory border that lifts the whole rug off the floor. It is a calm, confident Oriental rug rather than a loud one: no central medallion, no high-contrast drama, just an even flowering lattice that reads as texture from standing height and as careful drawing once you sit down with it. The pile is a practical 3/8", short enough to keep the fine floral outlines crisp and dense enough to take daily traffic under a sofa or a dining table. Condition is excellent throughout, with full pile, straight sides and clean ivory fringe. Every rug we ship leaves Freeport with a certificate of authenticity confirming it is genuinely hand-knotted.

Design and Motifs

The field carries a true all-over floral design: thin ochre vines arch across the burgundy ground in a repeating ogee lattice, and at each junction the weaver has set a different flower head. Count them in the close-up and you will find open 8 petal rosettes, half palmettes seen in profile, small tulip and carnation sprays, and long serrated acanthus leaves that curl back on themselves at the tip. Nothing is mechanically repeated; the rosettes change their core color from flower to flower, so the eye keeps moving. The main border is wide and ivory, filled with large gold and brick palmettes alternating with sprays of green leaves, and it is held in place by narrow gold guard stripes patterned with small blossoms and a dark brown outer band that frames all 4 sides. The drawing is bold in scale, which is what keeps a design this busy from feeling fussy across nearly 80 square feet.

The Burgundy Brown and Ivory Color Story

The ground is a soft burgundy brown that leans plum in daylight and closer to cocoa under lamplight, with gentle tonal movement through the pile where the dye lots shift, the kind of variation that signals hand-dyed yarn rather than a flat machine color. Against it, the florals are drawn in warm ivory, honey gold, wheat, sage and olive green, with small accents of soft brick red and a muted blue-grey inside a few of the rosette centers. The border is a clean cream that turns almost buttery where the gold palmettes sit, and the dark brown outer band repeats the field tone to close the composition. It is a warm, low-contrast, earth-toned palette that sits comfortably with walnut and oak floors, cognac leather, brass, and off-white or greige walls, and it hides everyday traffic far better than an ivory-ground rug of the same size. Browse related tones in our burgundy and red rugs if you are matching an existing scheme.

Chobi Weaving and Hand-Knotted Quality from India

India is where most of the world's good contemporary hand-knotted work is now made, and the Chobi group is the clearest proof of it: hand-spun wool, softened natural-looking dyes, classical floral drawing and honest knotting on a cotton warp and weft. This piece was tied knot by knot on an upright loom, and the back shows it, with a clear grid of knot nodes, a straight selvage and the hand-plied ivory fringe that is simply the warp of the rug rather than anything sewn on. The wool has a quiet sheen and a dry, resilient handle that will burnish rather than mat with use. At 8' x 9'10" it works as the main floor piece in a standard living room or under a 6 seat dining table with room for chairs to pull back; see how it compares with our other 8x10 Oriental rugs before you decide.