A quiet craft for a loud one. We make editions with artists, printed on the things people already touch every day.
Most "artist" pads are stickers slapped on stock mats. That was never the plan for us. Three things sit under your palm every day: the cloth, the base, the grip film. We make all three.
Spec autonomy, end to end. We write the cloth weave, the PU pour and durometer, the grip-film tolerance — and then test each against the surface it's meant for. Nothing is "better because denser" or "better because thicker"; every piece is chosen to match what the pad is asking for.
We own the mill. The weave, the finish, the edge specs are ours to set. Two weaves come out of it, one for each pad. Ume has a fine surface with a bit of bite to it. Made for control. Vena is finer still, with surface treatment on top. Made to glide. Neither one is better. They do different jobs. The art lives in the fiber itself, not printed over it.
The heat-transfer press is ours. We built it for sharpness. Dye sinks into the fiber itself, so the edges stay clean at any size. No halo. No bleed. We Pantone-match every run, which means a reprint shows up looking like the first one.
We set our own formula, durometer, and thickness, then keep testing until the base behaves. Base isn't just a number on a spec sheet. It has to fit the surface. Ume ships with two. A standard 4 mm soft PU, or Inoue SlimFlex at the same 4 mm soft. Same cloth on top, different feel underneath. Vena runs a 3 mm mid durometer. A speed cloth wants the firmer base.
Vena's surface runs through a three-stage pre-treatment before it leaves the mill. More durable. Smoother to the hand. Irys uses the best silicone grip film we could source. 0.25 ± 0.03 mm thick. Micro-textured so it holds. Low residue when you peel it off. Plotter-cut to fit seventeen mouse shapes.
Ume sits in the same register as Vena, but warmer. Soft pink and bone, with a bruised violet under it. Same painter. Two base choices at launch: a standard 4 mm soft PU, and Inoue SlimFlex.
Fine-weave cloth. Neutral handfeel with a bit of bite. The 4 mm soft PU base comes in two forms. Our standard pour, or Inoue SlimFlex. We matched them to the surface, not to a number. This is a control pad. Made to stop, not to sweep. The stitched edge is fine enough to forget about three hours in.
A single face, submerged. The palette sits on the cold side. Indigo and ultramarine. The kind of blue screens don't usually show.
Fine-surfaced cloth with an irregular weave. The surface runs through three stages of pre-treatment before it's finished. That's where the durability and the smoothness come from. This is a speed pad. A 3 mm mid-durometer PU base sits under it. Firmer than Ume's, because a speed cloth wants a firmer base.
Every grip tape on the market gives something up. PU slips. Silicone wears. Rough textures scratch the palm. We kept tuning ours until we didn't have to give anything up.
Best grip film in the category, as far as we can tell. Our own silicone, 0.25 ± 0.03 mm. Micro-textured so it holds through sweat, thin enough that the mouse still feels like a mouse. Pantone-matched every run. Plotter-cut to fit, so you don't have to hand-trim it seventeen times over.
Three short runs outside China. All sold through. These are here as a record. They aren't inventory.
Small batches went to specialty shops in Tokyo and Seoul, and to an international channel in Europe. The posts are still on X. We link to the originals instead of reprinting them.