Beautiful fabric, soft feel with a nice thickness that provides a nice weight for hanging smoothly.  The pattern is as shown with the blues are soft and tend toward the grey side vs brighter towards sky blue or teals. As room darkening is is moderate, as when the sun is directly on fabric is soft light shows through.. I live this level of darkness perfect for rest without confusion about being day or night outside. Since the description said darkening I would give the description only 4 stars. I rate the drapes with 5 stars. 
Sadly the pattern does not go with my sofa as hoped so I am returning them. Still highly recommend for beautiful fabric touch, and weight.