Name: Wheat Gold Chobi
Brand: RUGINZA
SKU: MG 819134
Price: 7285.0 USD
Availability: InStock

Wheat gold medallion Chobi rug, 242×294cm, about 4.5 tatami

Medallion detail in wheat gold on Chobi rug

Border detail of wheat gold Chobi hand-knotted rug

Wool pile of wheat gold Chobi rug, 242×294cm

Wheat gold Chobi rug 242×294cm, hand-knotted craftsmanship

Wheat gold Chobi rug for a large living room, 4.5 tatami

One-of-a-kind wheat gold medallion Chobi rug

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$7,285

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Size

242×294cm

Color — Wheat Gold

Wheat Gold

Rug material

Wool

Only one available — one-of-a-kind.

Hand-knotted
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A wheat-gold field carrying a large lobed medallion with pendants at top and bottom, corner spandrels, and an all-over floral of palmettes, rosettes and scrolling vine drawn in soft camel, cream and chestnut. The whole rug is worked in a washed, low-contrast palette with no strong colour anywhere. Wide borders of cartouches and rosettes frame the field through several narrow guard stripes. Ivory fringe at both ends.

Hand-knotted in wool. The field takes slightly more of the surface than the borders do — 53.4% against 46.6% — but the borders carry roughly twice the density of drawing, so the detail sits in the frame and the field stays quiet. At 242×294cm this is a large room rug, suited to a formal living or dining room.

Origin: Afghanistan
Type: Chobi, hand-knotted
Material: 100% wool
Design: Lobed medallion with spandrels and all-over floral
Size: 242×294cm (7'11"×9'8") — Large
Colour: Wheat gold with camel and chestnut
SKU: MG 819134
One-of-a-kind: Yes

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100% wool pile, hand-knotted, finished with an ivory fringe at both ends. The washed, low-contrast palette is characteristic of Chobi weaving and is achieved in the finishing rather than by fading, so it will not continue to lighten in the way an aged rug does.

This is a pale rug throughout and should be treated as one — there is no dark ground anywhere to hide marks, and the field is the quieter, more open half, so anything that does land there has little pattern to disappear into. The one advantage of a palette this narrow is that ordinary soiling tends to read as another tone in the same family rather than as a stain, provided it is dealt with promptly.

On most medallion rugs the field is the event and the border is the frame. This one is arranged the other way round, and it can be measured. By area the field is the larger half at 53.4% against 46.6%. But measure how much drawing each part actually carries — local contrast, which is independent of how brightly any part of the rug happens to be lit — and the borders come out at roughly double the field. The darkest accent colour follows the same pattern: it is very nearly three times as dense in the borders as it is in the field.

So the rug spends its detail on the edges and lets the middle breathe. That suits how a large rug is actually used. The centre of a piece this size spends most of its life under a table or a sofa, where fine drawing is wasted; the borders stay visible around the furniture. It also suits the palette. Every colour here sits in one narrow warm band — what reads as a deep red in the cartouches measures as a chestnut brown, matching that swatch at a distance of 2.4, and there is no true red anywhere on the rug. With so little colour contrast to work with, concentrating the drawing where it will be seen is what keeps the design legible rather than merely soft.

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Returns
For a change of mind, contact us within 30 days of delivery. Items must be unused, in original condition and in original packaging. Return shipping is paid by the customer and can be expensive from outside Japan, so please ask us about size or colour before you order. If your rug arrives damaged, defective or not as ordered, contact us with photos within 30 days of delivery: we pay for the return and send a replacement or a full refund.

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