How To Make A Cotton Rope Rug

Once you coil a complete circle use a medium to long stitch length and the widest zigzag setting to sew between the ropes and join them together.

How to make a cotton rope rug.

Then pull the pieces upward and tie them together with a rubber band again as shown in the photo. Next weave the cut cotton pieces in between the netting grid as shown in the photo. I continued gluing until i had approximately twelve rows. Plus it s super cheap so you can make a whole rug for less than 20.

The hardest part about making a rope rug is gathering the supplies and finding the time to actually make the darn thing. 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. Take one end of the rope and twist it in a circle as tight as you can as seen in the picture below.

The cost of materials for a 5x8 rug totaled about 300. Keep turning the coil and joining new rope to the coil until you reach the end of your sewn and wrapped rope. Take the beginning end of your wrapped and sewn rope and make a small clockwise coil. Watch the quick video hereto visualize it.

Hold the coil down with your hands so it doesn t unravel. Sew with a wide zig zag stitch. Coil the rope until the rug is approximately 24 inches across or your desired width. Once secured with a rubber band fluff out the piping pieces so they have more of a fuzzy pom pom shape.

I just simply bent the rope into loops and glued. Any kind of rope will work but i chose cotton clothesline because it s soft but durable. There are lots of ways to actually make your rug glue being a. Firstly i bent the cotton sash cord around in a circular pattern glued in between and held the cord together for a few seconds.