Though this rug looked as it was pictured online (two nice deep tones of blue) and initially felt nice for the first week, it shed terribly every day to the point that the plush layer of wool material had shed off in the roughly 45 days that we had it in our living room. All this shedding left us with a very scratchy, uncomfortable, and irritating rug. Do take the mentions of shedding in these reviews seriously. It wouldn’t have been so bad if the rug remained somewhat comfortable beyond the shedding, but the irritation was too much.