This rug is fine. Look closely at the pictures before you buy - what looks like texture in the white part of the weave is actually a gray weave, in an attempt to give it that "antiqued" look that all rug manufacturers seem to be doing right now. I wouldn't have purchased it if I had seen it in person in advance or had that aspect been obvious in the pictures. It does make the rug look a bit darker in person and the computer-generated graying makes the rug look cheaper.