9'11" x 14'1" Chobi Peshawar Oushak Rug | Navy Blue All Over Floral | Excellent Condition

At 9'11" x 14'1" this Chobi Peshawar rug covers a true room-size footprint with a single sustained idea: a deep navy blue field carrying an all over Oushak lattice of palmettes, serrated leaves and curling ivory vines, closed in by a broad cream border. The hand-spun wool has the low sheen that earns these weaves the nickname silky wool, and the drawing is deliberately open rather than crowded, so the pattern still reads clearly from standing height and from the far side of a large room. It falls squarely into the 10x14 area rug class that suits a full living room or a long dining table, the pile is even with no wear visible in the photographs, and the rug ships with a certificate of authenticity.

Design and Motifs

There is no central medallion here. The field is an all over floral design built on a thin trellis of ivory and salmon vines, with large shield-shaped palmettes set at the crossings, their centers filled with small lozenge grids in slate blue, camel and cream. Between them sit rust red tulip forms, 8 petal rosettes, tiny cream star flowers and long sickle leaves that hook back on themselves in the Oushak manner. The main ivory border alternates two cartouche types, a rust rosette with a black center and a camel shield with a wine red blossom, linked by a dark navy meandering vine and flanked by leaf and paisley fillers. Narrow guard stripes on both sides repeat a small tulip and leaf march in rust, slate and sage, and a plain navy outer edge finishes the rug. The corner photograph shows how cleanly the border turns, with the pattern resolving rather than being cut off at the 4 corners.

The Navy Blue and Ivory Palette

The field is a dark indigo navy that shifts subtly across the width, a natural variation you can see in the angled photograph where the light catches the pile and lifts the blue toward slate in places and drops it almost to ink in others. Against that ground the palette stays warm and dusty rather than bright: brick and rust red in the blossoms, soft salmon in the outlines, camel and antique gold in the large palmettes, muted sage green in the leaves, and a chalky slate blue that echoes the field. The border is a full ivory cream with a faint honey cast, which is what keeps a rug this dark from feeling heavy in a room. Buyers hunting navy blue rugs for a light floor or a pale sofa will find this combination easy to build around, since the cream border reads as the frame and the navy does the anchoring.

Chobi Peshawar Weaving in Pakistan

Peshawar, in the northwest of Pakistan, is one of the strongest contemporary hand-knotting centers in the world, and the Chobi group is its signature product. Chobi means wood, a reference to the natural and vegetable dye tones these workshops favor over hot synthetic colors, and the drawing borrows from the old Oushak and Sultanabad vocabulary: big-scale florals, generous spacing, soft outlines. The wool is hand-spun, which is why the pile takes light unevenly and gives the color its depth instead of a flat printed look. The back photograph, shot next to a 12 inch ruler, shows tidy straight knot rows on a cotton foundation with a firm flat selvage and hand-finished ends, the mark of a workshop piece rather than a rushed one. If you are weighing this against other origins, our guide on what separates a Persian rug from a wider Oriental rug explains where Peshawar weaving sits in that family.