How To Make A Climbing Rope Rug

Sewn rugs are much more durable than the tape and glue variety.

How to make a climbing rope rug.

While winter brings to mind ornate wool rugs and sturdy but plain salt and snow soaked doormats summer rugs can be lighter and more playful. What a great way to recycle a retired rope. This tutorial requires 16 worth of clothesline rope and some hardcore crochet skills and the. Climbing rope rugs are popular pieces of decor for climbers and non climbers alike.

You ll also find there a list of the materials and tools you ll need to make the rug mat. 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. While living aboard our sailboat nine of cups we were constantly replacing worn and chafed halyards and dock lines. Rather than throw the old lines away i.

Half of the rope is solid green and half is a patterned green. 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. This project is similar to this instructable but this project has a different approach.

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. I have seen several different patterns and methods but i like the woven rectangular ones best. The project came from here originally. How to turn an old rope into a cute little rug with almost no sewing.

Rugs can also be sewn the resulting rugs are larger a circle has roughly a 35 diameter for a 60m rope and flat. In this tutorial we used a two tone climbing rope.