I have the heavy duty custom cutting mat on my sewing bench and it’s amazing. There is a smooth side and a textured one, I use the smooth. It’s a great surface for pattern drafting and cutting using a rotary blade. If I’m using fine fabrics like chiffon it works best to have a new blade otherwise it’s pretty resilient to what I throw at it. My last mat lasted me about 4 years and I am working on it all day every day. I could have probably got longer out of it but I changed table size so wanted a new one. Highly recommend, I will never go back to a regular table top and cutting with scissors. It’s made my job so much quicker and changing to a rotary cutter has really helped with the RSI in my wrist. Win win