I love this rug! Great color -- definitely a pale blue-gray not just gray. Great wool. The only issue would be that the cardboard tube that it was wrapped around had bent at about 8' so there was a little mark in the way the fibers laid. However, it seems to the smoothing out and I'll have stuff on it so I don't mind. Not much shedding at all. Easy to get to lay flat in general. Very pleased.