9' x 13' Jaldar Bokhara Oriental Rug | Stepped Diamond Lattice | New Hand-Knotted Wool

This 9' x 13' Jaldar is a new, hand-knotted wool room-size piece built on the Bokhara tradition, and it is the sort of rug that quietly organizes a whole room. The field is a deep rose red carrying 3 vertical columns of stepped diamonds in camel and blue-grey, and the border system runs 9 concentric bands deep, which is unusually generous drawing for a rug of this class. The pile is dense and even, the ivory cotton fringe is full and untrimmed, and the back shows a tight, regular knot with no repairs or reweaving. It arrives with a certificate of authenticity confirming that it is 100% hand-knotted, and it ships free anywhere in the 50 states.

Design and Motifs

The field is a true all-over composition with no central medallion. 3 columns of interlocking stepped diamonds run the 13' length, each large diamond framed by a camel outline and a blue-grey stepped crenellation, with a small red lozenge at its heart carrying 4 hooked arms in ivory. Between the columns sit single camel diamonds, each with an 8 point star in teal and red at the center, and the negative space is scattered with tiny black and ivory hooks that give the drawing its tribal rhythm. This is a classic Turkmen-derived Jaldar layout, which is why it sits so comfortably alongside other geometric rugs. The border is the real showpiece: 9 bands in total, from the narrow reciprocal guard stripes through a wide camel band of 4 lobed rosettes to the outermost trellis band of small squares and fan-shaped leaves, all framed by a plain rose red outer edge.

A Rose Red Field with Camel, Blue-Grey and Ivory

The ground color is a clear rose red, closer to raspberry than to brick, and it holds a soft sheen where the light crosses the pile. Against it the weaver set camel and warm beige, which read almost peach under daylight, and a muted blue-grey that carries a touch of teal in the stepped outlines and the small star centers. Ivory and cream do the fine outlining work, picking out the hooks, the crosses inside the red lozenges and the tiny dots along the guard stripes, while black is used sparingly as a hard edge around the blue-grey crenellations so the pattern stays legible from across the room. The corner and border photos show how the camel ground of the wide band cools the red down, which is why the overall effect is warm rather than loud. It is a palette that settles easily with dark walnut floors, leather seating and cream walls.

Made in Pakistan: Weaving Town and Weave Quality

Jaldar is the finer end of the Pakistani Bokhara family, woven on cotton warps with a hand-spun wool pile and a much higher detail count than the plain elephant-foot Bokharas that flooded the market decades ago. The extra fineness is what allows those 9 border bands and the crisp black outlining; a coarser weave simply cannot hold that drawing. The back of this piece, visible in the fold photos, is tight and even from edge to edge with straight sides and square corners, which is the mark of a disciplined loom rather than a rushed one. If you are weighing the differences between this weaving tradition and the Persian workshop schools, our guide to what separates a Persian rug from an Oriental rug covers it in detail, and this piece also sits within our wider selection of large hand-knotted area rugs at 9 by 13.