Printed to order · 31.5″ square

Mahjong mats that mean something

Five designs from a thousand years of Chinese symbolism, drawn properly and told in full.

See the five designs
Crane and Pine — the printed mat artwork, flat
Deep crop of the Magpie and Plum artwork: two magpies among plum blossoms
Magpie and Plum — the joy bird on the méi branch, at close to print scale.

Why these five

Every design on our mats is a real piece of Chinese symbolism — a motif with centuries of use behind it, chosen because it says something true about a table of four people who keep showing up for each other.

We tell you what each one means, where it comes from, and why it belongs under your tiles. A beautiful pattern is decoration. A pattern you can explain is a story your table gets to keep.

Border band of the Three Friends of Winter artwork

The making

Printed one at a time

Each mat is printed to order in our studio, one at a time, on a dense non-slip cloth that keeps tiles quiet and cards flat. Dye-sublimation sets the design into the fibre itself, so it will not peel or crack — it fades only the way good fabric fades, slowly and evenly.

We inspect every mat by hand before it ships: edges, registration, and the personalization spelled against your order. It leaves folded, with a carrying bag, four days after you order it.

Meet the maker
The border of the mat artwork, at print scale
Corner crop of the Crane and Pine border: gold cloud-and-thunder fret
The cloud-and-thunder border of Crane and Pine. Western eyes read the same line as a Greek key.