Cutting mat

They are used, amongst other things, in hobby work for precise and clean cuts of paper, cardboard or textiles using a scalpel or rotary cutter.

Vinyl chloride (soft or hard plastic) and alkene are the most common materials.

Some cutting mats are marketed as "self-healing",[3] but this claimed functioning is not well documented.

Ordinary cuts in the plate itself will therefore often not be very visible in the form of surface irregularities even with repeated use, unless the surface cuts are done in a V shape, which, on the other hand, quickly will leave irregularities that make the mat difficult to use.

For occasional and ad hoc work, one can instead use old newspapers, magazines, cardboard or the like instead of a dedicated cutting mat.

Fabric cutting for patchwork with a cutting wheel on a 300 × 300 mm cutting board (with 10 mm grid )
Note that the mat is bent after improper storage (50 mm grid)
Image of a photo album , where the cutting mat below shows the scale by lines every 10 mm, as well as a color chart being used to document colors