9'3" x 11'6" Pakistani Bokhara Rug | Beige Field with Repeating Guls | New, Never Used

A brand new, never used Bokhara measuring 9'3" x 11'6", hand-knotted in wool on a cotton foundation with the tight, even weave that this workshop tradition is known for. The field is a warm beige with a soft peach cast, filled edge to edge with rows of octagonal guls, and the whole design is held inside a deep stack of guard borders that reads almost black from across the room. At just over 9 by 11 and a half feet, it covers a standard seating group the way a true 9x12 area rug should, with all four furniture legs on the pile and a clean margin of floor showing. Every rug ships with a certificate of authenticity confirming that it is hand-knotted, and this one arrives in perfect condition with full pile and original hand-tied ivory fringe.

Design and Motifs

The field is a strict all-over repeat built from the Tekke gul, the flattened octagon that collectors often call the elephant foot. Each gul is quartered by a fine black axis and filled with small hooked leaves in sage green, rust and ivory, and the rows are offset by upright diamond stars with hooked arms at the four corners, so the eye reads two alternating grids at once. There is no medallion and no open ground; the discipline of the repeat is the design. The border system is where the weaver spent the extra time: a wide outer band of diamond lattice, then a row of eight petal rosettes set in alternating ivory and rust cartouches, then several narrow bead and vine stripes on either side. Corners resolve cleanly, the rosette count carries around all 4 sides without crowding, and the drawing stays sharp right into the selvage.

Color: Warm Beige Ground with Black, Brown and Sage Accents

The ground is a warm beige that leans peach and camel depending on the light, a color that photographs softer than it looks in a room and that sits comfortably against oak and walnut floors, cream upholstery and painted trim. Against it, the guls are outlined in a near black charcoal and filled with three quiet accents: a dusty sage green, a burnt rust orange and a clean ivory that does most of the lifting inside the small motifs. Brown runs through the border grounds and gives the whole perimeter its weight, so the beige field looks even lighter by contrast. There is no harsh contrast anywhere in the palette and no bright synthetic tone; the wool takes light well, which is why the close-up photographs show the pile shifting between pale sand and deeper tan as the nap turns. Seen from the doorway, the rug reads as a neutral with warmth rather than as a pattern statement.

Bokhara Weaving in Pakistan

Bokhara takes its name from the old Central Asian trading city, but the weaving of this pattern moved south generations ago and the best modern examples now come from the workshops of Lahore and the surrounding Punjab towns in Pakistan. Those weavers took the Turkoman gul repeat, put it on a cotton foundation, and refined it into a floor rug built for daily use: short even pile, a dense knot count that holds the tiny hooked details you can see in the close-up shots, and a heavy finished selvage. Turn a corner over, as in the back photograph, and the grid of knots is regular row after row, which is the honest test of a hand-knotted Oriental rug. Nothing about this piece is machine made or printed; it is knot by knot work on a loom, finished with hand-tied fringe, and priced as a new rug that has never been on a floor.