Like the others have said, this rug does have that "wet twine" smell when you unroll it however that was gone in 3-4 days. No big deal at all. We have had the rug for several weeks and did not encounter the "rug debris" that others have mentioned. I vacuumed it really well before I put the furniture back and have not had a problem. The rug is in a very high-traffic room and we have two large, long-haired dogs. One dog is black and the other is black-white-tan so we are lucky enough to have hair of every color in our home. This rug replaced a wool rug we had for about 6 years and I had to vacuum at least every other day. Last week I went five days (OK - we were really busy!) before vacuuming and you couldn't even see the dog hair - OMG - this is truly amazing!!!!! The color of the rug is gorgeous - kind of a muted mix of all natural wood tones with a bit of gray thrown in for good measure. The color is much richer in person than in the picture. We have found that this rug makes our room look so much larger than the dark wool rug we used to have. The rug is not perfectly square - it does have a bit of a hand-made edge to it. It is very thick and chunky as described. The only reason I gave this rug four stars instead of five is the fact that I have stepped on, and subsequently removed, two twigs that were woven into the rug. I get that the rug is woven from all natural jute materials however I did not expect to step on a couple of sharp twigs. Hopefully that is the end of those little devils. All in all, we are thrilled with our rug and going to order a runner to match.