Make Rug From Climbing Rope

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.

Make rug from climbing rope.

Take one end of the rope and twist it in a circle as tight as you can as seen in the picture below. How to turn an old rope into a cute little rug with almost no sewing. Using the zigzag stitch tuck the end of the rope under your rug so it disappears from sight and sew over it to secure. Climbing rope rugs are popular pieces of decor for climbers and non climbers alike.

Rugs can also be sewn the resulting rugs are larger a circle has roughly a 35 diameter for a 60m rope and flat. Sewn rugs are much more durable than the tape and glue variety. Old climbing rope chalk bags. I mean why not make old climbing gear into new climbing gear.

Half of the rope is solid green and half is a patterned green. You ll also find there a list of the materials and tools you ll need to make the rug mat. To start out the rug make sure your on a flat slightly slippery surface such as a wood or tile floor. Continue to twist the rope around until you get a large circle of rope.

This project is similar to this instructable but this project has a different approach. By hand expect to spend several days at 2 3hr per day. The only supplies you need to craft this outdoor inspired decoration is a climbing rope and a lighter. In this tutorial we used a two tone climbing rope.