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Bokhara (Turkoman) Rugs – Hand-Knotted Persian Wool Rugs

Tribal gul patterns in deep reds, pure wool, 80x120 to 160x220 cm

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What Makes a Bokhara a Bokhara

A Bokhara rug is named after a market, not a loom: the Silk Road city through whose bazaars the weaving of the Turkmen tribes reached the world. The rugs themselves are Turkoman rugs — ours knotted by the Yomut and Goklan Turkmen of Golestan, the steppe plain in Iran's north-east corner by the Caspian Sea. Their signature is the gul, an octagonal emblem repeated in even ranks across the field — each tribe draws its own.

Everything here is pure wool, hand-knotted, the pattern held in the weaver's memory rather than on paper; a few pieces are prayer rugs, with the niche drawn at one end. Our carpet dictionary tells the tradition's story in full.

Choosing Yours

Deep madder reds and red-browns lead this shelf — the colours the Turkmen made their own — with green, beige and even pink grounds among them. The formats are tribal and apartment-friendly, 80x120 to 160x220 cm: a Persian rug for the bedside, the hallway or the front of a sofa.

If the same gul geometry calls to you in a darker, quieter voice, the Baluch rugs of the south-east speak it; for tribal drawing at its loosest and most colourful, the thick-piled Gabbeh rugs are the other pole.