9'9" x 10' Square Oushak Chobi Rug | Neutral Blush & Ivory All-Over Floral | Hand-Knotted Wool

True squares are rare on the market, and a good one solves a room that a rectangle never will. This piece measures 9'9" x 10', which reads as a clean 10x10 on the floor, and it is knotted entirely by hand in wool on a cotton foundation. The palette is deliberately quiet: a blush to dusty rose field, ivory and pale butter flowerheads, a faded terracotta main border. It is brand new and never used, and it ships with our certificate of authenticity confirming the hand-knotted construction, the wool pile and the size measured on our own floor.

Design and Motifs

There is no medallion here. The weaver ran an all-over floral design across the whole field: big open 8 petal rosettes set on a loose diagonal lattice, smaller star florets between them, and shield-shaped leaf cartouches each carrying a single sprig. Thin vine stems link the elements with the slightly loose, hand-drawn line that separates an Oushak from a tighter city drawing. The wide main border alternates lobed palmettes with rosette cartouches, flanked on both sides by ivory guard stripes filled with a small repeating floret and bracket motif, and the whole composition is squared off with narrow outer guards and plain ivory fringe at both ends. Because the design repeats evenly in 4 directions, the rug works from any approach, which matters on a square where no single side is the obvious front.

A Neutral Palette of Blush, Ivory and Faded Terracotta

The field sits between blush and warm dusty rose, pale enough to read as a neutral from standing height and pink enough to warm a room of grey and oatmeal furniture. Against it, the rosettes and cartouches are drawn in ivory and pale butter cream, with quiet sage green shading inside the larger flowerheads and soft brown outlines holding every shape in place. The main border steps up to a faded terracotta, closer to old brick than to red, and the guard bands drop back to camel and cream. Gentle abrash, the natural banding that comes from small dye lots of hand-spun wool, moves across the field in horizontal waves and keeps the large open ground from looking flat or printed. Nothing in the palette shouts, and that restraint is the point: it gives you a floor covering that recedes under furniture and reads as texture and warmth rather than as pattern.

Woven in Pakistan: the Chobi Peshawar Workshops

The weaving towns around Peshawar in northern Pakistan built their reputation on exactly this kind of piece. Chobi refers to the wood-toned vegetable dyes these workshops favor, and the wool is hand-spun before it is dyed, which is why the color breathes rather than sitting uniform across the surface. The rug is then given a soft wash that mellows the tones to the faded, sun-warmed look you see in the photographs. Turn the corner over and the back shows a clean, evenly beaten weave with straight rows and crisp definition of the design, the mark of a disciplined loom rather than a rushed one. If you are weighing this against a city piece from central Asia, our guide on Persian rugs vs Oriental rugs explains where each tradition sits, and where a hand-knotted Oushak like this one earns its keep: durable wool pile, honest handwork, and a square format at 9'9" x 10' that almost nobody stocks.