9' x 12' Bokhara Rug | Beige Field, Peach and Black Guls | Hand-Knotted in Pakistan, Never Used

This is the Bokhara design worked at full room size, 15 rows of octagonal guls marching across a soft beige ground, and it is one of the most useful pieces in the whole range of 9x12 Oriental rugs because the pattern is quiet enough to sit under heavy furniture without competing with it. The rug is brand new and never used, hand-knotted in wool on a cotton foundation, with a low even clip that keeps the small geometric drawing crisp underfoot. Fringe is full and untrimmed at both ends, the selvages are tight, and the pile is dense enough that the rug lies flat the moment it is unrolled. Every piece we sell ships with a certificate of authenticity listing size, material, weave and origin.

Design and Motifs

There is no central medallion here. The field is an all-over repeat of the Turkoman gul, the rounded octagon that collectors also call the elephant foot, each one quartered by a cross axis into 4 compartments filled with small leaves and buds. Between every row of guls runs a line of stepped diamond stars with hooked arms, which is what gives the field its woven grid rhythm rather than a static stamp. The border system is deep for a rug this size: paired narrow guard stripes, an inner band of tiny lattice work, a main border of 8 petal rosettes set in peach and ivory cartouches, and then an outer panel of large hooked diamonds drawn in the flatweave idiom that frames the whole piece like a kilim end band. Corners are resolved cleanly on all 4 sides, which is the quickest tell of a well drawn Bokhara.

Beige, Peach and Black Across the Field

The ground is a warm beige that drifts toward camel and light apricot as the light moves across it, the gentle abrash you expect from hand-spun wool taken from more than one dye lot. Against that neutral field the guls are outlined in a deep charcoal black that reads almost graphic in close-up, filled with soft peach and salmon, pale sage green and small touches of ivory. Brown runs through the border grounds and the guard stripes, tying the dark outlines back to the field, while the rosettes in the main border pick the peach up again so the eye travels outward instead of stopping at the edge. It is a genuinely neutral rug with color in it, which is why pieces like this sit well in rooms built on walnut floors, cream walls and leather, as the room photo shows. Buyers working to a light palette can see more options among our beige and ivory rugs.

Bokhara Weaving in Pakistan

The Bokhara design belongs to the Turkoman tribes of Central Asia and took its market name from the trading city of Bukhara, where tribal weavings were bought and sold. Pakistani workshops adopted the pattern after the middle of the last century and refined it into one of the most consistently well made categories in the hand-knotted trade: double-knotted wool on a cotton foundation, a knot count high enough to render those small diamonds and lattice bands without wobble, and a pile clipped low and level so the drawing stays legible. The wool is springy and takes a sheen as it is walked on. If you are weighing where this kind of weaving sits next to Persian city work, our guide on what separates a Persian rug from a broader Oriental rug covers the distinction honestly. This example is a clean, correctly drawn 9' x 12' of that tradition, unused and ready to go down.