Hasholomew and the Dableck Moodmat
A sprawled cartoon boy going under a wave of bright yellow goo, drawn in scratchy pen line on a vermilion red field and printed on eleven by eight inches of recycled rubber. Made with Hitman Glass.
The Print
A Boy, a Rig, and a Great Deal of Goo
The field is a flat vermilion red, matte, with the tooth of the rubber visible through it, and it sits inset inside a bare black border about a quarter inch wide on all four sides with the corners lightly rounded. Across the top, in tall hand drawn white caps that lean and wobble the way real hand lettering does, is HASHOLOMEW on the first line, then and the on a second line in a smaller mixed case hand, then DABLECK on the third. It is display type drawn with a pen rather than set from a font, and the unevenness is the point.
Under the lettering sits a large irregular blob of pale blue and white standing in for the ground. A spindly pen line cartoon boy lies sprawled on his back across it in a dark tunic and red checked leggings, mouth open, one hand still holding a small red rig. Coming down over him from the upper right is an enormous mass of bright yellow goo, drawn as long tapered teardrop streaks, and it is already winning. Off to the right a second pair of checked legs in red shoes kicks up out of the goo, which tells you this has happened to somebody else already and that nobody involved is getting out.
The whole thing is thin scratchy pen linework and flat colour with no rendering anywhere, on a palette held to red, white, pale blue, yellow and black. There is no UV in it and no second state. At the base of the blue blob the Hitman Glass flame and drip mark is printed in red with a white outline, small and neat, exactly where a maker’s mark belongs on a cover like this.
Made With
Hitman Glass
This one is a collaboration between the mat maker and a glass brand. The flame and drip mark at the base of the blue blob is that brand’s own, and the back of the mat carries the name again in bold italic condensed caps with a flame glyph standing in for the A, then an x, then the moodmats wordmark. It is on the artwork because both sides made the piece together, which is a meaningfully different thing from a print that borrows a mark it has no right to. No individual illustrator is signed anywhere on the front or the back, so nobody is credited by name here and we are not going to attach one on a guess.
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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 | 11 by 8 inches, approximate, portrait with the long side vertical |
| Shape | Rectangle, lightly rounded corners, art inset inside a bare rubber border |
| Material | 100% upcycled closed-cell rubber, Lava Rubber stock |
| Screen printed, flat colour on a vermilion red field, palette held to five | |
| UV | None. Standard ink only |
| Collaboration | Hitman Glass, brand mark printed on the artwork and on the back |
| Artist | No individual illustrator signed on the piece |
| 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.
No UV on This One
Standard ink, flat colour, no reactive application anywhere. A blacklight does nothing to it. Plenty of Moodmats do light up under one, this print is not among them, and we would rather tell you now than have you plug in a lamp and wonder what went wrong.
Thin Line and Flat Colour, on Purpose
This is not a dense full colour print and it is not trying to be. Five flat colours, scratchy pen linework, and a lot of open red field with nothing in it. If what you want is a saturated wall of artwork, this is not that piece. If you want something that looks like a book cover from across the room, this is exactly it.
Both Photos Are of This Mat
Front and back, both shot in normal light, both of the actual piece rather than a manufacturer product image. The red and the lettering will match what arrives. The speckle in the reclaimed rubber will not match exactly, because that shifts from sheet to sheet, and the border on this one is bare rubber rather than printed black so you will see it there most.
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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