9'11" x 13'11" Chobi Peshawar Rug | Coffee Brown All-Over Floral | Fine Handspun Wool

Hand-knotted in Peshawar, this 9'11" x 13'11" Chobi is the quiet, grown-up version of a room size Oriental rug: a coffee brown field, no medallion competing for attention, and drawing that reads clearly from across a large room. The wool is fine handspun stock with a low sheen, clipped to a medium pile that already feels broken in, and the piece is brand new and never walked on. Every rug leaves Freeport with a certificate of authenticity recording its size, material, weave and origin. At just under 10 by 14 feet it covers a full seating group, and buyers working with that footprint can compare the rest of our 10x14 area rugs alongside it.

Design and Motifs

The field carries a repeating all-over floral design built on offset rows of palmettes and lotus blossoms, each one linked by thin arching vines and long serrated leaves that curve back on themselves. Look at the close-up and you can follow a single vine as it leaves a rosette, splits into two tendrils and feeds the next blossom, which is the Ziegler-style drawing this workshop is known for. Small 8 petal rosettes fill the spaces between the larger flower heads, so the ground never looks empty. The border system is a wide ivory main band of alternating palmettes and leafy scrolls, flanked by two narrow guard stripes of running rosettes, with the corners resolved cleanly rather than cut off mid motif. The pattern repeats without a central medallion, which makes the rug forgiving under a large table or a long sectional, since no single focal point has to stay uncovered.

A Coffee Brown Field with Camel, Gold and Soft Blue

The ground is a warm coffee brown that shifts between mushroom, taupe and a deeper walnut as the light moves across it, the natural abrash of handspun wool dyed in small lots. Against it the flower heads are drawn in ivory and camel, with old gold outlining the vines and leaves. The accent that lifts the whole piece is a soft, dusty blue: pale sky blue in the smaller rosettes and a deeper slate blue in the petal clusters at the heart of the larger palmettes, visible in the detail photograph. The main border is a creamy ivory to oatmeal that frames the brown field without going stark white, and the outermost guard stripe is the lightest tone in the rug. It is a fully neutral, low contrast palette that sits easily with oak, walnut, linen, leather and stone, and it hides everyday traffic better than an ivory field would.

Peshawar Weaving and the Chobi Tradition

Chobi takes its name from the word for wood, a reference to the plant and mineral dye recipes these weavers use rather than harsh synthetics, and Peshawar has become the center for the style. The rug is knotted on a cotton foundation with hand-spun wool, and the back photograph shows an even, tightly packed knot line with straight, disciplined rows across all 4 sides, which is why the piece lies flat without a curled edge. Handspun yarn takes dye unevenly by nature, and that is exactly what gives the field its striated depth instead of a flat printed look. The ends are finished with plain ivory fringe and the sides are tightly overcast, both signs of a piece that was finished with care rather than rushed off the loom. It is a new rug in perfect condition, with the full life of the pile still ahead of it.