9' x 12'3" Chobi Peshawar Oriental Rug | Ivory & Blue All Over Rosette Lattice | Hand-Knotted Wool

This 9' x 12'3" Chobi Peshawar rug is brand new and was built the slow way, with handspun wool pile knotted row by row onto a cotton foundation and then washed so the ivory ground settles into a soft, low sheen finish rather than a bright one. There is no central medallion competing with your furniture: the whole field is an even lattice of rosettes in powder blue, sage green and cocoa brown, held inside a single wide blue floral border. At 9 feet across and just over 12 feet long it covers a full sofa and chair group or a 8 seat dining table, which is exactly why buyers shopping 9x12 Oriental rugs tend to land on all over drawing like this. It ships with our certificate of authenticity confirming it is a genuine hand-knotted piece.

Design and Motifs

The field is a true all over design, drawn as a diamond and star lattice that repeats without interruption from end to end. Each compartment holds a rosette: some are 8 petal blue blooms with a small ivory star at the center, others are round green wheel rosettes ringed with tiny florettes, and the spaces between them are filled with curled leaves, small boteh shapes and hairline vine work outlined in near black. The repeat is small in scale, so from standing height the pattern reads almost as woven texture and only resolves into individual flowers when you look down at it closely. The main border answers the field with linked palmettes and a running vine, contained by narrow twin guard stripes on both edges, and the corners are resolved cleanly so the pattern turns rather than breaking off.

A Quiet Ivory, Blue and Green Palette

The ground is a warm ivory that leans toward cream and oatmeal rather than stark white, which puts this piece squarely with ivory and beige rugs that sit easily on both light oak and dark walnut floors. The strongest accent is a soft powder blue, cooled slightly toward steel in the border and gently varied within each rosette where the handspun yarn takes the dye unevenly. Against it run muted sage and olive greens in the round wheel rosettes, warm cocoa and chestnut browns in the leaves and vine, and a very dark brown to black used only as outlining to keep every motif crisp. Small ivory highlights at the flower centers lift the whole surface. Nothing in the palette is loud, and the overall impression at a distance is a pale silvery blue green haze over cream.

Woven in Peshawar, Pakistan

Peshawar in northwest Pakistan is one of the few places still producing hand-knotted work of this standard at this scale, and the Chobi group is its best known output: handspun wool, natural and vegetable based dyes, and a finishing wash that softens the colors before the rug ever leaves the workshop. The weave here is fine enough to carry small scale floral drawing without the rosettes blurring, which is the real test of a workshop piece as opposed to a coarse commercial one, and the wool has the dry, slightly crisp handle that wears well under furniture and foot traffic. If you are weighing this against older city weaving, our guide on what separates a Oriental rug from its classical counterparts is worth reading before you choose. As a new, never used piece, all of its life is still ahead of it.