Lunar Strix Moodmat
An art nouveau owl in flight over nested diamonds and an upturned crescent, die cut on twelve inches of recycled rubber and printed in soft continuous tone. Artist series by Yantrart, run of 150.
The Print
An Owl, a Diamond and an Upturned Crescent
The owl comes at you head on, which is a harder way to draw a bird and a better way to fill a mat. Wings are thrown up and spread, talons are down, and the body sits dead center. Face and body are cornflower blue with fine feather stippling worked into them, a pale heart shaped facial disc framing yellow ringed eyes, a small cream beak between them. The wings are long and swept and they carry most of the color: bands of butter cream, mint, lavender, dusty rose and pale blue laid one after another, every quill outlined in rust brown, the primaries barred in black near the tips. Nothing about the bird is stylised into a mascot. It is drawn as an owl and then decorated.
Everything behind it is architecture. A large maroon and copper diamond frames the bird, and at the top of that diamond sits a cream and pink form that reads as a moth or a cocoon, with a tight coiled spiral at its center and two small round nodes flanking it. Bare curling branch tendrils in rust brown spread left and right across the lower half of the diamond, and if you look at them at thumbnail size they briefly read as handwriting, which they are not. At full resolution they resolve to branches. At the bottom of the piece an upturned cream crescent with feathered edges cradles two open blossoms, one cream and one blue, sitting above a mirrored ornamental crest. The whole thing is symmetrical down the center line without being rigid about it.
One thing about this listing is worth saying out loud. The maker’s own product page for this design gives a size and a run and nothing else: no print method, no die cut, no detail of any kind. Everything physical described above was read off the photograph at full resolution instead. That is where the die cut comes from, and that is where the full color continuous tone call comes from, since a piece carrying dozens of blended hues with no visible dot structure is not a limited spot screen print. Registration is clean, there is no lint or edge damage visible, and there is no lettering anywhere on the face: no title, no signature, no date, no number. Only the front has ever been photographed, so backing, thickness and edge finish are things we will confirm from ours rather than describe to you now.
Designed By
Yantrart
Credited on the maker’s product page as Yantrart, a named individual handle rather than a studio or a collective, which is why this row carries the Artist Series badge instead of falling through to a run number. Nothing further is claimed about the artist here. What the piece supports is somebody working in a specific and old tradition: art nouveau framing, nested geometry, a moth and a crescent and botanical tendrils used as ornament rather than as scenery, and a symmetry that holds without going mechanical. The palette is the giveaway. Muted dusty tones across the whole print take more confidence than bright ones and they are why this reads as a poster rather than as merchandise.
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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.
A Run of 150, and No Number to Quote
One hundred and fifty is the whole production for this design according to the maker. There is no inked figure anywhere on the printed face in the only photograph that exists, we have no photo of the back of one, and we are not going to invent a position inside a run we cannot verify. So the run size is what we quote and that is the end of it. 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 | 12 inches at the widest point, approximate |
| Shape | Die-cut to the artwork, irregular shield outline. Read from the photo |
| Material | 100% upcycled closed-cell rubber, Lava Rubber stock |
| Full color continuous tone with airbrush blending. Read from the photo | |
| Artwork | No lettering, signature, date or number on the printed face |
| Artist | Yantrart, 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.
Two of These Specs Come From the Photo
The maker’s own page for this design lists a size and a run size and nothing further. No print method, no die cut, no description. The die cut and the continuous tone print are both things we read off the product photograph at full resolution rather than facts we were handed, and we would rather you knew which is which. They are not guesses. A cut outline that follows two wing tips and a crescent is not something a photograph can be ambiguous about. But they are our reading, so they are labelled that way in the spec table too.
The Colors Are Meant to Be Quiet
Dusty rose, butter cream, mint, lavender, maroon and copper, all held down a stop or two from where a screen printed mat would put them. That is the artwork’s own palette and not a faded print or a washed out photograph. Sitting next to something loud it will look reserved, and that is the point of it. If you are looking for a mat that shouts across a room, this is not the one, and one of the twelve inch spot color prints in the same collection will serve you better.
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 the mat in our hands. The background is knocked out completely, so there is no surface, no shadow and nothing in frame to give you a sense of scale, which is worth knowing on a twelve inch piece where the number is a widest point rather than a footprint. It is an accurate look at the print. It is not a picture of the exact sheet you will get, because the rubber is reclaimed scrap and the base speckle shifts from mat to mat. One on hand, and our own photo is 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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