This set is done with hot melt glue, using a suede fabric wrap around the base. Where I personally made the other trivets with the various types of glue, my boyfriend took on the creation of this one for me. The hot melt glue system is VERY hot and can be dangerous. The quest for this specific test was to see how quickly we could get a trivet done. The hot melt glue was by far the quickest setting glue out of all the ones we tested.
http://www.wineintro.com/products/corks/trivethotmelt2/