This is a great 100% wool with shaded stripes of color through the fabric. The overall color would be a real red (not fuchsia), with blue, gold and brown in it. These fat quarters come to you already felted and ready to cut into strips. You can cut this fabric either way -- cut across the stripes for random color, or with the stripes to use each of the colors. How interesting in a rug! We have this wool in felted fat quarters only, not meters.