I really wanted to love this rug. Its nicely made and will shed some because its wool. Thats just what happens with wool rugs. The issue I had was with the color. Im pretty particular about color, but I would not have called it charcoal. My couch is a light gray and the rug just isnt dark enough in my opinion to be charcoal. It has a bit of a blue tint to it as well. I would maybe call it slate since that has more of a blue tone to it, but even that sounds darker than the rug actually is. In their defense, the rug does photograph darker than it is. I had to try pretty hard to get the picture to be true to reality. My dining chair is what I would call charcoal. Hopefully that helps show the difference. We did end up returning it, but if the color had been right I would definitely have kept it.