How To Make A Climbing Rope Rug

Buy and dye some dollar store clotheslines or recycle your old climbing ropes and get to knitting crocheting coiling or just good old fashioned gluing.

How to make a climbing rope rug.

How to turn an old rope into a cute little rug with almost no sewing. Sewn rugs are much more durable than the tape and glue variety. This tutorial requires 16 worth of clothesline rope and some hardcore crochet skills and the. In this tutorial we used a two tone 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. Rugs can also be sewn the resulting rugs are larger a circle has roughly a 35 diameter for a 60m rope and flat. What a great way to recycle a retired rope. Well if you re a trad or sport climber and have an old rope lying around you can learn the art of making a beautiful and useful rope rug out of it.

This project is similar to this instructable but this project has a different approach. Climbing rope rugs are popular pieces of decor for climbers and non climbers alike. By hand expect to spend several days at 2 3hr per day. Rather than throw the old lines away i.

While living aboard our sailboat nine of cups we were constantly replacing worn and chafed halyards and dock lines. Half of the rope is solid green and half is a patterned green. The only supplies you need to craft this outdoor inspired decoration is a climbing rope and a lighter. 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.

Using the zigzag stitch tuck the end of the rope under your rug so it disappears from sight and sew over it to secure. I have seen several different patterns and methods but i like the woven rectangular ones best.