9'2" x 12'6" Ghazni Chobi Peshawar Rug | All Over Rosette and Vine Design | Hand-Spun Wool, Never Used

This is a large room size Chobi Peshawar piece, hand-knotted in Pakistan from hand-spun Ghazni highland wool on a cotton foundation, and it reads far quieter in person than most new rugs of this scale. The field is a warm blush that shifts toward light brown as you walk around it, carrying an even lattice of cream and rust rosettes, and the wide ivory border keeps the whole 9'2" x 12'6" surface feeling open rather than busy. It is a genuine hand-knotted Oriental rug, never used, with a full pile and clean selvages, and it ships with a certificate of authenticity.

Design and Motifs

The drawing follows the classic Ziegler formula: a repeating all over rosette design with no central medallion, so the pattern continues under furniture instead of being interrupted by it. Each rosette is an 8 petal wheel of cream and blush petals set in a brown roundel, with small red flowerheads at the petal centers, and the roundels are strung together by thin olive vines that arch between them and drop tiny cruciform blossoms into the open ground. The border system runs 3 bands: a broad ivory main border filled with flowering shrubs and trellised branches, flanked by a sage green stripe of rosettes and rust tracery and an outer camel band of repeating leaf hooks. Corners are resolved properly, with the shrub motifs turning rather than being cut off, which is the first thing to check on a rug this size.

A Warm Blush, Beige and Sage Color Palette

The ground color is the reason to buy this one. It sits between blush and light salmon brown, with soft abrash striations running across the width where the hand-spun yarn took the dye at slightly different rates, and that movement is what keeps a large plain field from looking flat. Against it, the rosettes are drawn in ivory, wheat and pale gold, outlined with a dry brick rust and shaded into a warm cocoa brown at the roundel edges. The vines and guard stripe carry a muted sage green with olive undertones, and small clear red accents appear at the flower centers to sharpen the whole scheme. The border is a creamy beige that reads almost ivory in daylight and pulls toward honey under lamps. It is a low contrast, earth toned palette that works with walnut, natural oak, linen and leather, and it will not fight patterned upholstery.

Woven in Peshawar from Ghazni Wool

Peshawar in northwest Pakistan is where the best of this work is done, on vertical looms by weavers who learned the trade from families with generations of loom time behind them. The wool comes from Ghazni, a high altitude region whose sheep grow a long, lanolin rich fleece that is hand-spun rather than machine spun, so the yarn varies slightly in thickness and takes dye unevenly in the way collectors want. The back shown in the photographs is even and tightly packed with straight knot rows and no bulge at the sides, and the pile has the slight sheen that only good highland fleece gives. After weaving, the rug is washed and clipped to a medium low pile height, which sharpens the outlines of the rosettes and gives this 9'2" x 12'6" piece the settled, already lived with look that makes new Chobi weaving so easy to place.