The cotton is not to thick not too thin and is not see through. Bought in a king size for a king size comforter from ikea so the ties at the end are nice for wrestling the comforter into the duvet cover (even though the ikea comforter doesn't have a hole for them to go through, still less cumbersome than if they weren't there!) The colors are muted and match well to our other less vibrant bedding but also compliment our brighter accents as well. The ruffles are on three sides with the opening zipper under ruffle that's opposite the non ruffled side (if that makes sense!). This makes it easy to know which part pf the comforter goes towards the face/ headboard and which part has the zipper you want to avoid. Have washed once since purchase and didn't have too many initial flouffies fly off in the dryer.I want to give this 5 stars, but the first package came with a queen size duvet instead of a king size. It took a couple days for me to realize it because I didn’t think that was possible! I had to take out the tape measure to verify, it was in fact the wrong size! I was annoyed, but the return process through Amazon Prime is great! The material isn’t as soft as I expected. However it is beautiful! So I’m okay with the toughness of the material. It’s more of a linen texture. I’m hoping it will soften up after a few more washes!Very elegant. I love the color and embroidery. I am giving 4 stars because it’s a little too big for my standard queen size duvet, which seems odd. It’s not a big deal, but there is excess fabric on the sides. It’s very heavy too, and sometimes gets too warm for me. Overall seems high quality.The color is grey, more grey than it looked in the photo, which looked light blue to me. Overall a decent product though.Very heavy material and oversized for standard queen. But we’ll madeI really liked the color and it is pretty comfortable but the only thing I don’t like is that it easily wrinkles. After washing and drying it, it has permanent wrinkles and needs to be ironed. It is also not that thick and not very soft.I didn’t like it at first, but its grown on me. It’s quality and I really love the color.This is far better than I expected. I bought it because my dogs ruin everything but this is nice enough I’m trying desperately to keep them off of it.Linda la tela