Making A Climbing Rope Rug

Make your very own climbing rope door mat rug.

Making a climbing rope rug.

By lauren seidl step 1. It looks like there is just one misweave. Loosen the knot you initially made until it resembles something similar to a large pretzel shaped figure. Cut your fabric strips to 1 inch.

The dimensions of the finished rug is 2 1 3 x 1 3 4. Instead of straight stitching down the middle just go right into coiling it and attaching it with the 3 zig zag. Work day 1 get clean. 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.

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. So a nice little 4 x 6 rug will take about 8 60 meter ropes. Sewn rugs are much more durable than the tape and glue variety. By hand expect to spend several days at 2 3hr per day.

Work day 2a you spin me right round. Take one end of the rope and twist it in a circle as tight as you can as seen in the picture below. 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. 1 tube of caulk 1 caulk gun needle and thread duct tape scissors.

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. Make a simple overhand knot. 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.

1 used rope 60m is pretty common for climbing ropes. That reduces the area of the rug to approximately 0 32 square meters or about 1 5 x 2. When you re finished it ll look something like this. This will allow for a tighter wrap and much easier to work with 2.

It might help to tighten the tension of your thread 4. The same knot you d make to start tying your shoes. Rugs can also be sewn the resulting rugs are larger a circle has roughly a 35 diameter for a 60m rope and flat.