How To Make A Climbing Rope Rug

Climbing rope rugs are popular pieces of decor for climbers and non climbers alike.

How to make a climbing rope rug.

While winter brings to mind ornate wool rugs and sturdy but plain salt and snow soaked doormats summer rugs can be lighter and more playful. By hand expect to spend several days at 2 3hr per day. This project is similar to this instructable but this project has a different approach. This tutorial requires 16 worth of clothesline rope and some hardcore crochet skills and the.

In addition to the printed pattern you ll need a a couple 20 meter sections of climbing rope a piece of wood some nails and something to cut the rope and treat the ends so that they don t fray. Buy and dye some dollar store clotheslines or recycle your old climbing ropes and get to knitting crocheting coiling or just good old fashioned gluing. Rugs can also be sewn the resulting rugs are larger a circle has roughly a 35 diameter for a 60m rope and flat. Using the zigzag stitch tuck the end of the rope under your rug so it disappears from sight and sew over it to secure.

The only supplies you need to craft this outdoor inspired decoration is a climbing rope and a lighter. How to turn an old rope into a cute little rug with almost no sewing. To finish the rug use your fabric strip to wrap your end of the rope similar to how you wrapped the rope at the beginning of the rug just make sure the end of the rope is covered and sew down the middle to secure. Rather than throw the old lines away i.

While living aboard our sailboat nine of cups we were constantly replacing worn and chafed halyards and dock lines. The project came from here originally. What a great way to recycle a retired rope. In this tutorial we used a two tone climbing rope.

I have seen several different patterns and methods but i like the woven rectangular ones best. Sewn rugs are much more durable than the tape and glue variety.