DO NOT BUY THIS RUG! there are little white strings from the under stitching that work their way out in the blue area of the rug...I can not even pull the white strings with out ripping out the blue threads. I love the design and thought the white threads were just from shedding and that it would diminish over time....however it has been a few years and there are still white threads all over the rug. it was not due to shedding...it is because of the poor quality of the rug. The little white threads are driving me crazy...even though I vacuum it...the rug still looks like It has fuzz or strings all over it...