The color and texture are just as pictured. Love these - beautiful feel to the fabric, appear quite sturdy and cover my pillows very nicely. (We had bought a couch locally and it came with hideous pillows that I would never use. These were PERFECT to enable us to still USE the pillows but have a *much* different look/feel to them!) I loved these so much that I ordered another, smaller, different colored set for another room.