Making A Climbing Rope Rug

So a nice little 4 x 6 rug will take about 8 60 meter ropes.

Making a climbing rope rug.

Thick polyester rope in desired color felt cut into a circle ours is 24 felt should match rope scissors heavy duty construction adhesive painter s tape paintbrush silicone paint in desired color. Cut your fabric strips to 1 inch. When you re finished it ll look something like this. Loosen the knot you initially made until it resembles something similar to a large pretzel shaped figure.

It might help to tighten the tension of your thread 4. To start out the rug make sure your on a flat slightly slippery surface such as a wood or tile floor. The dimensions of the finished rug is 2 1 3 x 1 3 4. Make your very own climbing rope door mat rug.

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. The same knot you d make to start tying your shoes. Instead of straight stitching down the middle just go right into coiling it and attaching it with the 3 zig zag.

Maybe we need a knot that can grow outward every year or two as we replace our ropes so that eventually the mat can grow into a rug. Take the outer part of the right loop and flip it to the left so. Work day 2b getting caulky. Work day 1 get clean.

Rugs can also be sewn the resulting rugs are larger a circle has roughly a 35 diameter for a 60m rope and flat. It looks like there is just one misweave. 1 tube of caulk 1 caulk gun needle and thread duct tape scissors. Work day 2a you spin me right round.

This will allow for a tighter wrap and much easier to work with 2. 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. That reduces the area of the rug to approximately 0 32 square meters or about 1 5 x 2. By hand expect to spend several days at 2 3hr per day.

To finish it we flipped the rug over held the 2 loose ends together marked where to cut the rope cut the rope with scissors burned the ends with a lighter and sewed the two ends of rope to each other using a speedy stitcher sewing awl. Trissa june 01 2014 1. By lauren seidl step 1.