UV Cats Moodmat
A full page of cats in sunset and violet gradients, screen printed on recycled rubber with reactive ink through the whole design. Live sale release, one on hand.
The Print
Sixteen Cats and a Lot of Small Plants
The cats are drawn flat and clean, with soft gradients doing all the work instead of shading. One runs yellow through orange into hot pink. One is solid violet with a blue undertone. Several are striped, the bands laid across the body in a contrasting color rather than drawn as fur. Every pose is different: upright and formal, mid-stride with the tail hooked, curled into a loaf, stretched out flat, one lying with its chin down and its eyes half open, and a black one at the bottom edge with only its head, shoulders and a rainbow band across its back inside the frame.
In between them the mat fills with small botanical sprigs and scattered dots in cyan, magenta and yellow. They are drawn simply and sit behind the animals, which keeps the composition from getting crowded even though there is very little empty rubber left. Like the snakes mat that came out of the same drop, it runs off all four edges with no border and no centered subject, so it reads correctly from any side of a table.
Under a blacklight the whole thing changes character. The purples and pinks drop back into a deep even violet, the rainbow gradients across the cats fire up in orange, yellow and green, the eyes all come forward in bright green, and the little plants pick out in cyan. In room light it is a warm, busy, friendly print. Under the lamp it is a much colder and stranger one, and both are good.
On Video
See It In Hand
Photos only get you so far. This is the actual piece, shot in our hands, so you can see the scale, the finish and how it behaves in real light before you buy it.
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 Drop Print, Not a Catalog Print
This one is recorded as a live sale release rather than a regular store item. No run number is printed on the design and none is claimed here. Reactive pattern prints like this one tend to move on the day they drop and then only turn up secondhand. What we can tell you is that we have exactly one.
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 | 11 by 8 inches, approximate |
| Shape | Rectangle |
| Material | 100% upcycled closed-cell rubber, Lava Rubber stock |
| Screen printed, full color with UV reactive application | |
| UV coverage | Extensive. Rainbow bands, eyes and the foliage layer |
| Artist | Not credited on the piece |
| Edition | No run number printed |
| Release | Live sale exclusive, not a regular catalog item |
| 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 Needs a Blacklight
The glow is not glow in the dark. It will not charge up and shine on its own. Reactive ink needs a 365nm or 395nm blacklight. With one on it this design reorganizes completely. Without one it is a warm, busy color print on black.
It Is a Pattern, Not a Picture
There is no centered subject here and no focal point. It is designed as a repeating field that runs off all four edges. That is the right call for a mat you look at from every side, but if you want one big image to stare into, one of the die-cut character mats will suit you better.
This Is the Exact Mat You Get
One of these exists at this shop. Both photos are of the actual piece in hand, room light and blacklight, so what you see is what ships.
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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