We are really pleased with this rug. The border pattern adds a nice punch of color to the rug. It does shed a little bit of the material over the first few days, we vacuumed the rug a few times and now it's no longer shedding. My only negative comment is that the rope material on the border is already fraying a bit (we have had for 2 weeks), I don't think this rug will last as long as one withouth the rope border, but I ok with that because the cost was reasonable.