Just received rugs about one week ago so cannot comment on durability yet.  The color is a beautiful cherry, not red.  The fabric seems to be plush and soft (I like to go barefoot in the house).  When vacuuming, not a lot of lint or fuzz came off in the bag.  It took about four or five days of being weighed down for the curls in the rug to straighten out but now is flat and shows no wrinkles.  So far it has been excllent and love the color.