Bath Mats & Bath Rugs
Oval, round, scalloped, cloud, animal and fully custom die-cut shapes — bound to survive the wash, GOTS and OEKO-TEX certified
Shaped & Sculpted
A shaped bath mat is the fastest way to make a bath range look designed rather than sourced. It is also the easiest thing to get wrong: cut a silhouette badly, bind the curve badly, and the mat unravels within a season. We tuft with the cut line planned in, die-cut or hand-cut the shape, and bind the full perimeter rather than heat-sealing it — and we tell you at sampling stage when a shape you have designed will not hold up, rather than after your customer has washed it twice. Oval, round, scallop, cloud, arch, heart, star, animal and fully bespoke silhouettes to your own artwork.
Craft
Cutting a bath mat into a cloud, an oval or an animal silhouette takes an afternoon. Making that silhouette survive fifty washes takes a bound edge, correctly tensioned around every curve, on a pile that was tufted with the cut line already in mind. That is the part that separates a shaped bath mat you can put your brand on from one that comes back as a return.
So we bind rather than heat-seal, we plan the tufting around the intended silhouette, and we are honest at sampling stage about which shapes will not hold up — thin necks, sharp internal corners and long narrow protrusions are the usual problems. If a shape you have designed will fail, we would rather tell you before the order than after the first customer complaint.
| Shape families | Oval and round; scalloped, cloud and wave edges; arch and half-moon; hearts, stars and flowers; animal silhouettes; contour and pedestal mats; and fully custom die-shapes to your artwork. |
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| How a shape is made | Tufted on a broadloom, then die-cut or hand-cut to the silhouette and bound around the full perimeter. The binding is where a shaped mat lives or dies — a poorly bound curve unravels within a season, so we bind rather than heat-seal. |
| Design input we need | A flat vector (AI, EPS, SVG or PDF) is ideal. A clean scaled sketch or a photograph with dimensions is enough for us to prototype from. |
| Practical limits | Very narrow necks, thin protrusions and sharp internal corners are hard to bind durably. We will tell you when a silhouette will not survive laundering, and propose the nearest version that will — rather than shipping something that fails in the customer's bathroom. |
| Sizing | Shaped mats are quoted to the bounding box, not the silhouette. Tell us the overall footprint you need on shelf and we will work the shape back from that. |
| Backing | Non-slip latex backing cut to the silhouette. Latex-free, TPR and unbacked options available. |
| Certification | OEKO-TEX® Standard 100 default; GOTS organic, GRS recycled, OCS and BCI available. |
| MOQ & lead time | Low, flexible MOQs. Shaped programmes need one extra sampling round for the die and the binding, so allow 3–4 weeks to approved sample. |
Current Range
A selection from our shaped and sculpted bath mat range. Children's shapes are covered separately on our kids' bath mats page.

AH-BT-BM-005
Tufted ivory ground finished with a scalloped outer edge. The simplest way into shaped bath mats — a rectangular footprint with a decorative silhouette, so it merchandises on a standard shelf but photographs as a design piece.

AH-BT-BM-017
Oval format with a full-perimeter ruffle trim, woven reversible in cotton. Oval is the highest-volume non-rectangular shape in bath and the easiest to introduce into an existing range.

AH-BT-BM-016
Carved and embossed tufting that sculpts a damask relief into the pile surface — shape expressed through the pile rather than the outline, for retailers who want the effect without a die-cut footprint.
Compliance
Every construction on this page can be produced to certified standards. Which certificate applies depends on the yarn and the programme, so we confirm it in writing at sampling stage — and the certificate travels with the shipment, not just the sales pitch.
Global Organic Textile Standard — for programmes built on certified organic cotton, covering the fibre and the processing chain through to the finished shaped bath mat.
Tested for harmful substances on the finished article. Our default certification for bath programmes, and the one most retail buyers ask for first.
Global Recycled Standard and Organic Content Standard, for recycled-content and blended-organic programmes where full GOTS is not the right fit.
Sedex registered, SA 8000, BSCI, ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 14001 — the audit trail large retail accounts require before onboarding.
Certificate scans and transaction certificates are supplied on request — see all certifications →
Buyer Questions
Yes. Send a flat vector file (AI, EPS, SVG or PDF), or a clean scaled sketch with dimensions, and we will prototype the silhouette. Allow one extra sampling round compared with a rectangular mat, because the die and the edge binding both need approving.
Oval is the highest-volume non-rectangular shape and the easiest to add to an existing range. Scalloped and cloud edges perform well because they read as designed while still merchandising on a standard shelf. Animal and character silhouettes sell hardest in the children's category.
We will make almost anything, but we will not ship something we know will fail. Very thin necks, sharp internal corners and long narrow protrusions are difficult to bind durably and tend to unravel in the wash. When a design has one of those, we will say so and propose the nearest silhouette that will survive laundering.
To the bounding box rather than the silhouette, because that is what determines material usage and shelf footprint. Tell us the overall footprint you need and we will work the shape back from it.
Organic, yes — any shape can be produced in GOTS certified cotton. Reversible is more limited, because a die-cut mat needs a bound edge and most reversible constructions are woven flat; oval and scalloped reversible formats work, more complex silhouettes generally do not.
Send us a vector file or a scaled sketch and we will come back with a prototype, an honest read on whether the silhouette will last, and a price.
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