9'2" x 11'10" Chobi Oriental Rug | Mamluk Medallion & Panel Design | Brand New Hand-Knotted Natural Wool

This 9'2" x 11'10" Chobi is a brand new hand-knotted piece that borrows its architecture from the Mamluk workshops of 16th century Cairo and resets it in a quiet grey, sage and apricot palette. It is the kind of Oriental rug that reads as an antique from across the room and as a crisp, unworn weave the moment you stand over it: full pile everywhere, hand-spun wool with visible variation in the yarn, and a soft wash that takes the newness out of the color without touching the structure. At 9'2" by 11'10" it is a true room-size piece, and buyers shopping 9x12 Persian and Oriental rugs will recognise how rarely this much drawing survives in a neutral colorway. Every rug we sell ships with a certificate of authenticity confirming it is genuinely hand-knotted.

Design and Motifs

The Mamluk layout is one of the most disciplined in the weaving world, and this piece follows it closely. A large octagonal medallion sits dead center, outlined in ivory and filled with a dense mosaic of tiny leaf and dot forms, with a small 8 petal rosette at its heart and lance-shaped pendants reaching toward the ends. Around it the field breaks into interlocking squares, stepped rectangles and triangles, each panel carrying its own ornament: 4 satellite rosette medallions in ivory and apricot at the quarters, cypress and candlestick forms in the smaller cells, and scattered papyrus sprays between them. The effect is a tiled courtyard floor translated into wool. The border system runs 5 bands deep, a wide main band of detached rosettes and curling leaves flanked by narrow slate guard stripes and a vine-scroll inner frame, which gives this geometric medallion design a settled, architectural edge rather than a busy one.

Slate Grey, Sage and Apricot: Reading the Color

The field is a true slate grey, cool and slightly smoky, with enough natural abrash in the hand-spun yarn that it shifts between pewter and a softer dove tone as the light moves across the pile. Against it the drawing is carried in ivory and a muted apricot that photographs as peach in the close-up shots and sits closer to warm sand in daylight. The wide main border changes register completely: a pale sage green ground, almost celadon, sprinkled with small grey and apricot blossoms, which lifts the whole rug and keeps the grey from going flat. A charcoal outer band and selvedge finish the edge, and the fringe is clean ivory. There is no red, no strong navy and no high contrast anywhere, so this is a genuinely neutral large rug that will sit under warm woods, greys, blacks and natural linen without fighting any of them.

Woven in Pakistan: Chobi Weaving and Quality

Chobi weaving, centered on Peshawar and Lahore, is where a great deal of the world's best new hand-knotted work is now produced, and this rug shows why. The wool is hand-spun rather than machine-spun, which is what creates the gentle striation in the grey field, and the dyes are the plant-based recipes the name Chobi refers to. The knotting is even and tight enough to hold the small Mamluk panel ornaments without blurring them, and the back shown in the photographs is clear and regular, each knot legible across a cotton foundation. After weaving the rug is washed and lightly sheared to soften the color, a finishing step that gives it the settled look of an older piece while the pile remains full and completely unworn. It is heavy, flat-lying and built for daily use.