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.

How to make a climbing rope rug. Rugs can also be sewn the resulting rugs are larger a circle has roughly a 35 diameter for a 60m rope and flat. 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. 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. The project came from here originally.

While living aboard our sailboat nine of cups we were constantly replacing worn and chafed halyards and dock lines. I have seen several different patterns and methods but i like the woven rectangular ones best. This project is similar to this instructable but this project has a different approach. Sewn rugs are much more durable than the tape and glue variety.

What a great way to recycle a retired rope. By hand expect to spend several days at 2 3hr per day. Rather than throw the old lines away i. 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. Using the zigzag stitch tuck the end of the rope under your rug so it disappears from sight and sew over it to secure. How to turn an old rope into a cute little rug with almost no sewing. 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.

You ll also find there a list of the materials and tools you ll need to make the rug mat. In this tutorial we used a two tone climbing rope.