Making A Climbing Rope Rug

The dimensions of the finished rug is 2 1 3 x 1 3 4.

Making a climbing rope rug.

It looks like there is just one misweave. 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. So a nice little 4 x 6 rug will take about 8 60 meter ropes. To start out the rug make sure your on a flat slightly slippery surface such as a wood or tile floor.

By lauren seidl step 1. 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. Work day 2a you spin me right round.

Make a simple overhand knot. 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. Take the outer part of the right loop and flip it to the left so. Take one end of the rope and twist it in a circle as tight as you can as seen in the picture below.

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. 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. Cut your fabric strips to 1 inch. Work day 1 get clean.

Sewn rugs are much more durable than the tape and glue variety. This will allow for a tighter wrap and much easier to work with 2. Continue to twist the rope around until you get a large circle of rope. Trissa june 01 2014 1.

Instead of straight stitching down the middle just go right into coiling it and attaching it with the 3 zig zag. Work day 2b getting caulky. 1 used rope 60m is pretty common for climbing ropes. Rugs can also be sewn the resulting rugs are larger a circle has roughly a 35 diameter for a 60m rope and flat.

That reduces the area of the rug to approximately 0 32 square meters or about 1 5 x 2. 1 tube of caulk 1 caulk gun needle and thread duct tape scissors. By hand expect to spend several days at 2 3hr per day.