Making A Climbing Rope Rug

Continue to twist the rope around until you get a large circle of rope.

Making a climbing rope rug.

Take one end of the rope and twist it in a circle as tight as you can as seen in the picture below. 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. It might help to tighten the tension of your thread 4. Work day 1 get clean.

It looks like there is just one misweave. 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. Trissa june 01 2014 1. Take the outer part of the right loop and flip it to the left so.

By lauren seidl step 1. Sewn rugs are much more durable than the tape and glue variety. Make your very own climbing rope door mat rug. 1 used rope 60m is pretty common for climbing ropes.

Make a simple overhand knot. That reduces the area of the rug to approximately 0 32 square meters or about 1 5 x 2. 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. The dimensions of the finished rug is 2 1 3 x 1 3 4.

When you re finished it ll look something like this. 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. Work day 2a you spin me right round. 1 tube of caulk 1 caulk gun needle and thread duct tape scissors.

Instead of straight stitching down the middle just go right into coiling it and attaching it with the 3 zig zag. This will allow for a tighter wrap and much easier to work with 2. Cut your fabric strips to 1 inch. Rugs can also be sewn the resulting rugs are larger a circle has roughly a 35 diameter for a 60m rope and flat.

The same knot you d make to start tying your shoes. Loosen the knot you initially made until it resembles something similar to a large pretzel shaped figure. To start out the rug make sure your on a flat slightly slippery surface such as a wood or tile floor.