Making A Climbing Rope Rug

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

Making a climbing rope rug.

Loosen the knot you initially made until it resembles something similar to a large pretzel shaped figure. 1 tube of caulk 1 caulk gun needle and thread duct tape scissors. The dimensions of the finished rug is 2 1 3 x 1 3 4. 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.

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. So a nice little 4 x 6 rug will take about 8 60 meter ropes. By hand expect to spend several days at 2 3hr per day.

Work day 2a you spin me right round. It looks like there is just one misweave. Work day 2b getting caulky. Make your very own climbing rope door mat rug.

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. Rugs can also be sewn the resulting rugs are larger a circle has roughly a 35 diameter for a 60m rope and flat. Make a simple overhand knot. Cut your fabric strips to 1 inch.

Work day 1 get clean. Instead of straight stitching down the middle just go right into coiling it and attaching it with the 3 zig zag. 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.

To start out the rug make sure your on a flat slightly slippery surface such as a wood or tile floor. 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. 1 used rope 60m is pretty common for climbing ropes.

The same knot you d make to start tying your shoes. Take the outer part of the right loop and flip it to the left so. This will allow for a tighter wrap and much easier to work with 2.