stunning, beautiful, lovely, everything i wanted and more (I got the large size and it's wonderful). but! I made the mistake of putting it in my kitchen and got hot butter on it, which melted some of the fibers. I was able to clean it up so it's not noticeable unless you know what happened. this isn't the fault of the rug, just a word of warning for others considering doing the same (it looked really good, but I had to move it because of the risk).