How To Make A Cotton Rope Rug

Keep turning the coil and joining new rope to the coil until you reach the end of your sewn and wrapped rope.

How to make a cotton rope rug.

The tails eventually become sewn as well and give more pop to the rug on this side. I then decided to challenge myself by making a row out of loops. I continued gluing until i had approximately twelve rows. Plus it s super cheap so you can make a whole rug for less than 20.

There are lots of ways to actually make your rug glue being a. Hold the coil down with your hands so it doesn t unravel. Then pull the pieces upward and tie them together with a rubber band again as shown in the photo. Once you coil a complete circle use a medium to long stitch length and the widest zigzag setting to sew between the ropes and join them together.

I just simply bent the rope into loops and glued. To start out the rug make sure your on a flat slightly slippery surface such as a wood or tile floor. The cost of materials for a 5x8 rug totaled about 300. Take the beginning end of your wrapped and sewn rope and make a small clockwise coil.

To get the desired result on the back fold the fabric around the rope like a hot dog bun on a hot dog and let the tails stay flat while you keep sewing around and around. Watch the quick video hereto visualize it. Next weave the cut cotton pieces in between the netting grid as shown in the photo. Sew with a wide zig zag stitch.

The hardest part about making a rope rug is gathering the supplies and finding the time to actually make the darn thing. Firstly i bent the cotton sash cord around in a circular pattern glued in between and held the cord together for a few seconds. Take one end of the rope and twist it in a circle as tight as you can as seen in the picture below. Continue to twist the rope around until you get a large circle of rope.