Crochet 12 Moodmat
A crochet ripple blanket photographed close and printed corner to corner on twelve inches of recycled rubber. Square, full color, five yarn colors cycling down the field.
The Print
Five Yarns Rippling Down a Square
Follow the waves first. Horizontal bands run the full width of the mat, each one climbing to a crest and dropping to a trough in a smooth sine curve rather than the hard point a chevron makes. Colors cycle down the field in a fixed order, purple, then orange, then pale sage green, then medium blue, then yellow, then back to purple, and that sequence lands about three full times between the top edge and the bottom. Gauge is chunky, several stitches tall per color band, so what you are looking at reads as a handmade afghan rather than a fine machine knit.
The structure is worth a second look, because it is doing real work. At every crest the stitches fan out into a cluster, and at every trough they pinch together, and that pairing of increase and decrease is the whole mechanism that turns straight rows of crochet into a ripple. None of the wave is drawn on. It is a consequence of how the blanket was made, photographed rather than illustrated, which is why the shading between rows is soft natural shadow and there is not a black keyline, a flat fill or a halftone dot anywhere in it. Look closely and the individual posts separate out, along with the twist in the yarn and the small compression where one row sits on the row beneath it.
The edges are where it stops being a picture of a blanket. The print runs full bleed on all four sides and the waves are cut off mid stroke at every one, so the pattern is cropped rather than framed and there is no internal margin at all. What surrounds it is about a quarter inch of bare black rubber, the cut face of the sheet, grainy and matte against the smooth print. Corners are slightly rounded. It is a square, not a cut silhouette. Registration is clean with no banding, and there is no lettering on it anywhere: no title, no signature and no maker mark, which suits it, because a blanket does not sign itself either.
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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.
The Details
Specs and Care
| Size | 12 inches square, approximate |
| Shape | Square with slightly rounded corners, not die cut |
| Material | 100% upcycled closed-cell rubber, Lava Rubber stock |
| Full color photographic print, continuous tone, corner to corner | |
| Artwork | Close up crochet ripple blanket in five yarn colors. No lettering on the face |
| Artist | Not credited on the piece |
| Availability | Open stock, not 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.
The Waves Get Cut Off at the Edge
The print goes right off all four sides with no border designed into it, so the ripple bands are sliced mid wave where the rubber ends and the only thing framing the artwork is about a quarter inch of the bare black cut face. That is how it left the shop rather than a trimming mistake, and it is visible in the maker’s photo if you look at the corners. Worth knowing if you were picturing a printed frame around the pattern.
It Looks Like Fabric and It Is Not
The photograph is convincing enough that people reach out expecting yarn. What arrives is closed cell rubber with a smooth printed face: it grips, it repels what you spill on it, and it wipes down with soap and warm water. For this job that is the better material, since a real afghan under a rig is a stain waiting to happen, but do not expect any of the softness the picture suggests. It is a print of a blanket, not a blanket.
These Are the Maker’s Photos For Now
The single image on this page is the manufacturer’s product shot rather than a picture of a mat in our hands. It is straight on, evenly lit and high enough resolution to resolve individual stitch posts, so it is an accurate look at the print. It is not a picture of your sheet. The rubber underneath is reclaimed scrap, so base speckle and surface texture shift a little from sheet to sheet, and the black around the cut varies with it. Three 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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