Every rug here was knotted by hand. Bokhara, Kazak, Ziegler, Agra, Khotan, Mamluk, Khurjin, Suzani and Damask, held in Lahore and priced openly by the square foot. Delivered free across Pakistan, and sent abroad by arrangement. What is online is a selection; the house holds a great deal more.
80pieces online now
Nº 01Khotan4 × 6.2 ftRs 273,000
Single piece
Nº 02Khotan6.6 × 10 ftRs 596,000
Single piece
Nº 03Khotan7.9 × 10.2 ftRs 725,000
Single piece
Nº 04Damask5 × 8.3 ftRs 373,500
Single piece
Nº 05Suzani7.9 × 10.2 ftRs 807,000
Single piece
Nº 06AgraFlorin5.8 × 7.9 ftRs 299,000
Single piece
Nº 07AgraVerse5.7 × 8.2 ftRs 306,500
Single piece
Nº 08Bokhara TekkeRunner 3ply2.5 × 8.5 ftRs 86,000
Held in depth
Nº 09Bokhara GulRunner 3ply2.6 × 8.1 ftRs 84,000
Held in depth
Nº 10Bokhara TekkeRunner 3ply2.6 × 7.8 ftRs 81,500
Held in depth
Nº 11Bokhara GulRunner 3ply2.5 × 7.9 ftRs 79,000
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Nº 12Bokhara TekkeRunner 3ply2.6 × 7.8 ftRs 80,000
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Nº 13Bokhara TekkeRunner 3ply2.7 × 8 ftRs 87,000
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Nº 14Bokhara GulRunner 3ply2.5 × 8 ftRs 81,000
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Nº 15Bokhara FilpaRunner 3ply2.5 × 7.6 ftRs 76,500
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Nº 16Bokhara GulRunner 3ply2.7 × 6.6 ftRs 70,000
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Nº 17Bokhara GulRunner 3ply2.7 × 6.4 ftRs 67,500
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Nº 18Bokhara GulRunner 3ply2.6 × 6.4 ftRs 66,500
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Nº 19Bokhara GulRunner 3ply2.6 × 6.7 ftRs 69,500
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Nº 20Bokhara FilpaRunner 3ply2.7 × 6.5 ftRs 70,500
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Nº 21Bokhara FilpaRunner 3ply2.5 × 7.6 ftRs 76,500
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Nº 22Bokhara Tekke3ply3.1 × 5 ftRs 61,000
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Nº 23Bokhara Gul3ply3.1 × 4.9 ftRs 60,000
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Nº 24Bokhara Tekke3ply5 × 3 ftRs 62,500
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Nº 25Bokhara Tekke3ply3.1 × 5.0 ftRs 61,500
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Nº 26Bokhara Gul3ply3.1 × 5.2 ftRs 65,500
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Nº 27Bokhara Tekke3ply3.1 × 5.2 ftRs 65,500
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Nº 28Bokhara Tekke3ply3.1 × 5.1 ftRs 63,000
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Nº 29Bokhara Filpa3ply3.3 × 5 ftRs 66,000
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Nº 30Bokhara Tekke3ply3.1 × 5.2 ftRs 65,500
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Nº 31Bokhara Tekke3ply3 × 5.1 ftRs 61,000
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Nº 32Bokhara Gul3ply3.1 × 5.2 ftRs 64,000
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Nº 33Bokhara Tekke3ply6.5 × 9.6 ftRs 251,000
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Nº 34Bokhara Gul3ply4.6 × 6.6 ftRs 120,500
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Nº 35Bokhara Tekke3ply8.2 × 10.3 ftRs 338,000
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Nº 36Bokhara Tekke3ply5.4 × 8.1 ftRs 176,500
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Nº 37Bokhara Tekke3ply4.5 × 6.9 ftRs 122,500
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Nº 38Bokhara Gul3ply4.4 × 6.9 ftRs 122,000
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Nº 39Bokhara Gul3ply3.1 × 5.2 ftRs 66,000
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Nº 40Bokhara Gul3ply3.1 × 5 ftRs 61,500
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Nº 41Bokhara GulRunner 3ply2.6 × 12.6 ftRs 128,500
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Nº 42Bokhara Gul3ply2.5 × 9.3 ftRs 94,000
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Nº 43Bokhara Tekke3ply6.6 × 10.3 ftRs 272,000
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Nº 44Bokhara Tekke3ply2.6 × 4.1 ftRs 42,500
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Nº 45Bokhara Gul3ply2.6 × 4 ftRs 42,000
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Nº 46Bokhara Gul3ply2.7 × 4.2 ftRs 45,500
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Nº 47Bokhara Gul3ply2.6 × 4 ftRs 41,000
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Nº 48Bokhara Gul3ply4.5 × 6.7 ftRs 119,500
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Nº 49AgraTracery6.5 × 8.8 ftRs 377,000
Single piece
Nº 50AgraFlorin6.5 × 8 ftRs 343,000
Single piece
Nº 51AgraFlorin4.9 × 6.6 ftRs 214,000
Single piece
Nº 52AgraFlorin4.9 × 6.7 ftRs 206,500
Single piece
Nº 53KhurjinCaravan4.9 × 6.7 ftRs 228,000
Single piece
Nº 54KhurjinCaravan5.8 × 7.7 ftRs 301,000
Single piece
Nº 55KhurjinRhythm4.7 × 6.8 ftRs 221,500
Single piece
Nº 56KhurjinRhythm5.7 × 7.7 ftRs 309,500
Single piece
Nº 57KhurjinRhythm5.7 × 7.3 ftRs 294,000
Single piece
Nº 58KhurjinRhythm5.4 × 8.9 ftRs 337,500
Single piece
Nº 59KhurjinRhythm5.3 × 7.5 ftRs 278,000
Single piece
Nº 60KhurjinRhythm5.6 × 7.9 ftRs 307,500
Single piece
Nº 61KazakVector5.9 × 8.9 ftRs 348,000
Single piece
Nº 62KazakVector4 × 5.6 ftRs 148,000
Single piece
Nº 63KazakVector4 × 5.3 ftRs 138,500
Single piece
Nº 64KazakVector3.9 × 5.9 ftRs 154,500
Single piece
Nº 65KazakMonolith5.6 × 7.8 ftRs 288,000
Single piece
Nº 66KazakMonolith5.1 × 6.2 ftRs 209,500
Single piece
Nº 67KazakMonolith5 × 6.8 ftRs 223,000
Single piece
Nº 68KazakAstral9 × 12.5 ftRs 739,500
Single piece
Nº 69KazakAstral5.9 × 8.7 ftRs 336,500
Single piece
Nº 70KazakAstral5 × 6.5 ftRs 212,500
Single piece
Nº 71Mamluk5.8 × 8.5 ftRs 393,000
Single piece
Nº 72Mamluk5.1 × 6.2 ftRs 254,000
Single piece
Nº 73Mamluk3.9 × 5.7 ftRs 175,000
Single piece
Nº 74AgraVerse4 × 5.8 ftRs 149,500
Single piece
Nº 75ZieglerTracery9.9 × 13.3 ftRs 867,000
Single piece
Nº 76ZieglerTracery8 × 10.3 ftRs 544,000
Single piece
Nº 77ZieglerTracery6.4 × 8.2 ftRs 346,500
Single piece
Nº 78ZieglerFlorin5 × 6.6 ftRs 213,000
Single piece
Nº 79ZieglerFlorin4 × 6 ftRs 153,500
Single piece
Nº 80ZieglerFlorin4.4 × 6.5 ftRs 187,500
Single piece
End of the room
That is the selection online.
The house holds a great deal more than is shown here. What you do not see, ask for.
A hand-knotted rug is built knot by knot on a loom, with no glue and no backing, so its structure is its wool and its knots, and both age well. That is what the price pays for: a rug made to be used for decades, washed, repaired and handed on. Turn one over before you buy it. The drawing should read as clearly on the back as on the front, and how to tell a hand-knotted rug takes about a minute to learn.
How Loomish prices a rug
By the square foot, with the rates published. Three-ply Bokhara is Rs 4,000 a square foot; Kazak, Ziegler and Agra Rs 6,600; Khurjin Rs 7,000; Mamluk Rs 8,000; Khotan and Damask Rs 9,000; Suzani Rs 10,000. Every price here is its size multiplied by its rate, the same for everyone who reads it. What a handmade rug costs, size by size sets the arithmetic out in full.
Bokhara in depth, everything else one of a kind
Bokhara is the house’s own specialism and is held in depth: many pieces to a design and many to a size, so the same drawing can be supplied again for a second room or a whole project. Every other family is held as single pieces, each the only one of itself. The Bokhara and the runners are where depth lives.
Delivery and returns
Delivery within Pakistan is free: dispatched within two to four working days of the order being confirmed, by tracked courier. Abroad, delivery is quoted door to door before anything is committed, and import duty is paid on arrival. If a piece is not right, there are fourteen days from delivery to say so; the returns policy sets out how.
Where to begin
With the room rather than the rug. Measure it, then decide whether the rug should settle the room, as the large rugs do, or lead it, as the bold and graphic pieces do. The size guide draws the common rooms to scale, and a photograph of the room sent on WhatsApp is the most useful thing the house can be given.
Questions
Where can I buy hand-knotted rugs in Pakistan?
Loomish holds hand-knotted rugs in Lahore and delivers them free across Pakistan. Every piece online can be ordered here or discussed on WhatsApp, and the house holds a great deal more than has been photographed.
How much does a hand-knotted rug cost in Pakistan?
Hand-knotted rugs are priced by the square foot. At Loomish the rate runs from Rs 4,000 a square foot for three-ply Bokhara to Rs 10,000 for Suzani, so a 5 by 8 foot Bokhara, forty square feet, is about Rs 160,000.
How can I tell whether a rug is really hand-knotted?
Turn it over. A hand-knotted rug shows its whole pattern on the back, knot by knot, with no backing cloth. A tufted rug hides its back under a glued fabric, and a machine-made rug shows a perfectly regular grid.
Is delivery free?
Within Pakistan, yes: by tracked courier, dispatched within two to four working days of the order being confirmed. Abroad, delivery is quoted individually, door to door, before anything is committed.
Can I return a rug?
Yes, within fourteen days of delivery, unused and in the condition it arrived in. The returns policy sets out who pays carriage and how refunds are made.
Do you supply interior designers, hotels and retailers?
Yes. Bokhara is held in depth and can be supplied again in the same design and size, and in quantity; every other family is held as single pieces. Trade, project and wholesale orders are arranged individually, with terms agreed in writing.