Beautiful rug but should have considered this was not for a frequently used room. If the white lines get any sort of mark on them, you can't clean them. We've used a brush and a little cleaner on ours to clean a spot out of one of the white places and it changed the texture of the white part to be more rough. It's obvious that we brushed it to clean it. Not a great rug if there's even an ounce of a chance that you're going to get a speck of dirt on it.