Modern mousepads are typically made of lesser density rubber composites (open cell styrene, butadiene rubber or open cell SBR) with fabric bonded to the upper surface. However, many other types of material have been used, including fabric, plastics, recycled rubber tires, silicone rubber, leather, glass, cork, wood, aluminum, stone and stainless steel. High-quality gaming mats are habitually made from plastic or high-tech fibers.
There is now a fairly large intermixture of high kind "gaming grade" mousepads. In the blastoff there were only a few such manufacturers: Everglide (arguably the first to come onto the market), fUnc Industries, Icemat, SteelSeries and Ratpadz (made by [H]ard|OCP). In 2005, a lot deeper companies followed suit, including Razer, Qpad, Corepad, Xtracpads, X-Ray, Gamerzstuff, Ideazon, and Allsop. These pads are available in a comprehensive combo of sizes to suit the changed sensitivity settings that gamers choose. The Corepad Deskpad XXXL, unique of the largest pads on the market, measures 90cm x 45cm.
