9'5" x 11'9" Chobi Peshawar Rug | Neutral Faded Pastels | All-Over Lattice | Never Used

This 9'5" x 11'9" Chobi Peshawar is the kind of hand-knotted Oriental rug that does the quiet work in a room: a full 10 by 12 footprint of natural wool in faded beige and soft tan, with no medallion, no high contrast and nothing to fight the furniture. The pile is low and even, the handle supple, and the wool has the slightly lanolin-rich sheen of good hand-spun yarn, so the surface shifts tone as you walk around it. The back in the close-up shows a clean, regular knot line on a cotton foundation, and the ends finish in a tightly braided natural fringe. It is brand new and never used, in perfect condition, and ships with a certificate of authenticity stating origin, materials and hand-knotted construction. Buyers looking at 9x12 Oriental rugs for a living or dining room will find this one of the easiest pieces to live with.

Design and Motifs

The field carries a repeating all-over design: a soft lattice of hooked vine work holding alternating rows of 8 petal rosettes, split palmettes and small pomegranate forms, drawn tone on tone so the pattern reveals itself slowly rather than announcing itself. Because the drawing repeats on an even grid with no central medallion, the rug can be placed in any orientation and can take a sofa or a dining table across it without losing its composition. The surround is built from three bands: a narrow guard stripe of paired leaf tips, a wide main border of standing urn and palm figures that march end to end, and an outer guard that frames the whole piece. The corner detail shots show how carefully those border figures turn the 4 corners, resolving into the guard stripes instead of being cut off, which is the mark of a weaver working from a well drafted graph rather than improvising. Spandrels, scrolling half palmettes and tiny cross rosettes fill the ground between the larger elements, giving the surface texture when seen from standing height.

A Neutral Faded Pastel Palette

The ground is a warm oatmeal beige that moves between pale sand and light wheat as the wool catches the light, with gentle abrash striations running across the width where one batch of hand-spun yarn gave way to the next. Pattern is picked out in soft tan and a dusty light brown, with the border figures a shade deeper so the frame reads clearly without turning dark. Running through the drawing are muted accents of pale sage grey and the faintest blush of peach, best seen in the border close-up, and these are what keep an otherwise monochrome rug from looking flat. There is no black, no navy and no strong red anywhere in the piece, which is why it sits easily with white oak floors, limewashed walls, linen upholstery and brass. Collectors of beige and ivory rugs will recognize the washed, sun softened tonality that Chobi weaving is bought for.

Afghan Chobi Weaving in the Peshawar Tradition

Chobi takes its name from the word for wood, a nod to the natural dyestuffs these weavings are known for, and the style grew out of Afghan weavers reworking classic Oushak and Ziegler style drawing for modern interiors. The yarn is hand-spun and the rug is knotted on a cotton warp, then given the long washing and clipping that gives the pile its antique, lightly faded surface. Finishing is done to Peshawar standards, the trade hub where these rugs are washed, stretched, clipped and bound, and that final stage is as much a part of the quality as the knotting itself. What you judge in a piece like this is the evenness of the knot line, the straightness of the sides and the way the wool takes light, and all three hold up here: the selvedges are tight, the back is uniform across 141 inches of length, and the pile is soft rather than dry. At a true 9'5" x 11'9" it is a substantial hand-knotted floor covering that will take daily traffic for decades.