The rug is  beautiful but it is hard to keep clean. When you vacuum with the brush roll on, it pulls out the white strings, without the brush roll on you can't get it clean. The fibers from the rug keep clogging up my vacuum cleaner every time I vacuum it. I know some new rugs do that but I have had this one for weeks now and it is still doing it. Knowing what I know now, I would not purchase the rug again.