I bought this for my 9 year old daughters bedroom.  Its beautiful and is truly snowy white.  My son likes to make snow angels on it.  It shakes out well and doesnt shed as much as I thought it would.  Any shedding onto the floor is easily vacuumed up.  I highly recommend this rug.  Now if I can just get my black lab to give up thinking its his new bed that would be great!