9'3" x 12'7" Pakistan Bokhara Rug | Beige Field with Rows of Guls | Soft Wool, New

Measuring 9'3" x 12'7", this hand-knotted Bokhara covers a full living room or dining room in one clean, disciplined pattern. The pile is soft wool clipped low over a cotton foundation, which is why the small motifs stay crisp instead of blurring, and the field reads as a warm camel beige that shifts toward apricot where the light catches it. Rows of octagonal guls march the full length of the rug, separated by slim cross shaped stars, and the whole field is held inside a wide band of narrow guard stripes. It is new and unused, with no restoration and no repiling anywhere in the weave. Like every piece we sell, it ships with a certificate of authenticity, and if you are weighing this against other handmade options, our guide to the difference between Persian and Oriental rug weaving is worth five minutes.

Design and Motifs

The field is a strict all over gul design, built from 6 vertical columns of octagonal guls repeating down the length of the rug. Each gul is quartered by a fine black outline, with the 4 quarters filled by small hooked brackets and a dark center, the ancestral Turkoman guard motif that collectors call the elephant foot. Between the gul rows sit smaller cross shaped stars with serrated arms, and the alternation of the 2 elements is what gives the field its steady, almost architectural rhythm. The ends finish with a row of upward pointing zigzag skirts, a traditional detail borrowed directly from tribal weaving. Framing the field is a main border of ivory and rust rosette cartouches set on a black ground, flanked on both sides by at least 8 narrow guard stripes of diamonds, stars and running vine. The corners resolve cleanly, with the border turning square rather than breaking mid motif, which is a mark of a weaver working from a well drafted cartoon.

A Warm Beige Field with Coral and Teal Accents

The dominant color is a soft camel beige that photographs with a faint apricot warmth, lighter toward the center of the field and a touch deeper along the borders where the wool takes the dye differently. Against that ground, every gul is drawn in charcoal black and deep brown outline, then filled with salmon coral, a muted sea green teal and bright ivory. The cross motifs between the gul rows use the same teal and coral pairing, so the eye reads the field as a repeating 2 tone pattern from standing height and only picks up the ivory detail up close. The main border reverses the scheme, putting ivory and coral rosettes on black so the frame grounds all 4 sides. Standing in a room, the overall impression is warm neutral rather than colorful: beige and brown carry the rug, and the coral and teal act as small points of life. That makes it easy to live with alongside wood floors, leather, burgundy upholstery or stone.

Bokhara Weaving in Pakistan

The Bokhara pattern takes its name from the Central Asian market city where Turkoman tribal weavings were traded for centuries, and the gul itself belongs to those nomadic weavers long before it became a workshop design. After 1947 the pattern was taken up by the weaving centers of Pakistan, above all around Lahore, where workshops refined it into the tightly drawn, low clipped version seen here. The work is done on a cotton warp and weft with a hand-tied wool knot, row by row, and the quality shows in the details: straight sides, even knot count from end to end, motifs that hold the same width across all 6 columns, and a selvage that has been finished by hand rather than machine overcast. The wool is the strong point, a soft, slightly lustrous fleece that will burnish with foot traffic instead of dulling. At 9'3" x 12'7" this is a true room size piece, and it sits comfortably among our large hand-knotted area rugs for buyers who need the floor covered wall to wall in a single weaving.