Certo Glass Moodmat
A vintage style travel patch of two recycler rigs under a night sky, die cut to the badge outline on nine inches of recycled rubber. UV reactive under a lamp, run of 150.
The Print
A Travel Patch for a Glass Shop
Read it as a patch and the layout snaps into place. A flat purple arch runs around the outside as the frame, doing the job a stitched border does on a real patch, and inside it the field is a black night sky speckled with small white and yellow dots, a scatter of four point sparkle stars and one little ringed planet sitting up in the left corner. Two yellow panels run vertically down the sides carrying stacked black letters, CERTO down the left and GLASS down the right. A cream bar crosses the bottom with DENVER set in condensed black slab caps between a left pointing and a right pointing triangle. That is the credited studio’s own name on a mat the studio commissioned, which is exactly what a shop patch has always been for.
The scene inside the frame is glass. Two tall recycler style water pipes stand front and center in coral pink, teal, cream and yellow, drawn with heavy black keylines and flat cel fills, their bodies wrapped in a stepped zigzag blanket pattern that bands its way around the tubes. A third smaller rig in pink and teal sits between and behind them with a few halftone dot shadows stacked behind it, and that is the only place on the whole design where anything is rendered rather than filled flat. A torch angles down from the upper left with an orange and red flame reaching toward the pipes. From the upper right a dropper or reclaim tool comes in at the opposite angle and lets go of a teal splash. None of the gear is drawn as any identifiable manufacturer’s product. It is drawn as gear.
Then the cut, and then the lamp. The die follows the arched frame the whole way around and bulges outward at two points, once to take in the flame at the upper left and once to take in the splash at the upper right, so the top edge is lumpy rather than a clean curve and the two tools break the frame on purpose. Print stops short of the cut on this one rather than bleeding to it, so a narrow quarter inch of bare black rubber runs around the purple and reads as a keyline. Put a blacklight on it and the design reorganizes itself. The purple frame goes bright violet, the pinks and corals convert to hot fluorescent magenta with the flame and the dropper burning hardest, the yellows and creams shift to a pale chartreuse that picks the side panels, the bottom bar and the little stars straight out of the field, and the teal turns electric cornflower blue. The blacks do nothing at all. Sky, keylines and lettering stay dead, so what you get under the lamp is the artwork drawn in light on top of nothing. That is UV reactive and it needs the lamp running. It is not glow in the dark, and we are not claiming glow, because no lights out photo of this design exists.
Designed For
Certo Glass
Credited on the maker’s product page as Certo Glass, and the same name is printed into the artwork twice, stacked down the two yellow side panels, with DENVER on the bar across the bottom. This is a shop mat: a glass studio commissioned a design, put its own name on it, and Moodmats printed the run. Nothing further about the studio is claimed here beyond what the maker’s page credits and what the mat itself says, and no individual illustrator is named because none is given. That last part is the whole reason this row carries a run number on the badge rather than an Artist Series tag. The credit is real either way and it belongs on the page.
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Made in New Jersey Since 2009
Rubber That Already Had a First Life
Moodmats started with scraps from old wetsuits and discarded scuba and surf neoprene, material that was headed straight for a landfill. That became Lava Rubber, and Lava Rubber is what every Moodmat is cut from. The feedstock now comes from wetsuits, gaskets, weatherstripping, seat molds, and other clean scrap that gets collected or donated. More than two tons of it moves through the New Jersey shop every month, gets pressed into sheet stock, then die-cut and screen printed. Keeping that material out of the ground has been the point from day one.
Closed-Cell Neoprene
Closed-cell rubber does not drink up what you spill on it. Water, reclaim, and terp splash sit on the surface instead of soaking in, so a wipe with soapy water puts it back to new.
It Stays Put
The rubber grips whatever it is sitting on and grips whatever you set on top. A rig that would skate across a glass table or a finished desk stops moving the second it lands on a Moodmat.
Tough and Self-Extinguishing
Heat resistant, self-extinguishing, and built out of material that already survived a first life. This is not a printed coaster that curls after a month on the table.
Where People Actually Put These
It Does Not Have to Hold a Rig
A Moodmat protects a surface and grips what sits on it. Whether that thing is a banger, a camera, or nothing at all is up to you. They are called Moodmats for a reason. Pick the one that matches how you feel and put it wherever it belongs.
Rig and Glass Pad
The job it was built for. Keeps glass off hard surfaces and keeps hard surfaces off your glass.
Display Surface
Figures, models, controllers, dice, cameras, watches. Anything worth setting on something intentional.
Wall Art
Plenty of these never touch a table. Hang it, frame it, or pin it behind the setup and let the print do the work.
Desk and Everyday
Trivet for hot pans, landing spot for keys, pad under a pet bowl, cushion on a camp table.
Why It Matters
Runs End. Prints Do Not Come Back.
Moodmats print in runs, and runs end. Once a design is out, it is out. Artist collabs and drop exclusives regularly land in quantities of ten to twenty five pieces, which is why the people who collect these track drops, trade them, and frame the ones they will never put a rig on. If this specific print matters to you, the time to grab it is while it is still on the shelf.
One Hundred and Fifty Made, and No Number on the Piece
A hundred and fifty is the whole production for this design according to the maker. Nothing on the printed face carries an inked figure, we have no photo of the back of one, and we are not going to invent a position in the run, so the number we give you is the size of the run and nothing finer than that. One came in on our first wholesale order and one is what is on the shelf.
No Reprints
Moodmats does not go back and run a sold-out design again. When this one is gone from our shelf and theirs, the only way to get it is from somebody who already has one.
Worth Hanging
A print this limited does not have to earn its keep under a rig. Plenty of these end up on a wall, in a frame, or stacked with the rest of a collection.
The Details
Specs and Care
| Size | 9 inches at the widest point, approximate |
| Shape | Die-cut to the badge outline, bulging out at the flame and the splash |
| Material | 100% upcycled closed-cell rubber, Lava Rubber stock |
| Screen printed, flat cel fills and heavy black keylines. CERTO, GLASS and DENVER lettered into the art | |
| UV | UV reactive, verified from the maker’s blacklight photo. Glow in the dark is not claimed |
| Artist | Certo Glass, credited by the maker |
| Edition | Run of 150, not individually numbered |
| Origin | Made in New Jersey, USA |
Wipe it down with warm water and a little dish soap, then let it air dry flat. That is the whole routine. Do not run it through a washing machine or a dryer, do not scrub the print with an abrasive pad, and do not rest a lit torch or a glowing-hot banger directly on the surface. Use a stand or a puck for anything still at temperature.
Straight Talk
Know Before You Buy
Upcycled Means Variation
The rubber is reclaimed scrap, so base color, speckle, and surface texture shift slightly from sheet to sheet. Two mats of the same design will not be photocopies of each other. That is how you know it is the real material and not virgin stock.
Heat Resistant, Not Heatproof
The rubber is self-extinguishing and handles warm gear without complaint. It is not a torch pad. Park anything still glowing on a proper stand or a quartz puck, not on the print.
UV Reactive Is Not Glow in the Dark
Two different properties, and people mix them up constantly. UV reactive means the ink answers a blacklight while the lamp is running, which this design does, verified from a photograph of the mat under one. Glow in the dark means a pigment holds light and releases it with everything switched off, and we are not claiming that here, because no lights out photo of this design exists and we do not claim what nobody has seen. Buy it for what the blacklight shot shows and nothing about it will surprise you.
Die-Cut Means Irregular Edges
The outline follows the arched badge frame and then pushes outward twice to keep the torch flame and the tool splash, so the top edge is lumpy and the listed nine inches is the widest point across it rather than a uniform footprint. The narrowest rubber on the piece is at those two bulges. Measure your space if it is tight, and treat the flame tip the way you would treat any thin section of rubber rather than using it as a grab handle.
These Are the Maker’s Photos For Now
Both images on this page, the shot on white and the blacklight shot, are the manufacturer’s product photography rather than pictures of a mat in our hands. They appear to be the same physical unit and they are an accurate look at the print and at how it behaves under a lamp. They are not a picture of your sheet. The rubber underneath is reclaimed scrap, so base speckle and surface texture shift from mat to mat. One of these came in and our own photos are on the list.
Set the Mood
Recycled rubber, made in the USA, printed with art worth looking at. Free shipping on orders over $75, and every order ships from a veteran-owned small business.
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