Weaving Climbing Rope Rug

Outdoor enthusiast mike harcarik takes you through a step by step process of using old climbing rope to create beautiful woven rugs and mats.

Weaving climbing rope rug.

Continue to wrap and sew straight down the rope. As with any weave as opposed to a spiral it s not so. This will happen for any woven rug but less weaving more room for looseness. 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.

Climbing rope rugs are popular pieces of decor for climbers and non climbers alike. I had always wanted to know how to tie a rope rug and set about learning this year. Keep the pressure foot down and leave the needle in the rope. A quadruple weave rug we made from retired 10 2mm x 60m climbing rope.

This takes some skill to tie. This is a real tied rope rug not one of those lame glued rugs like they had in climbing magazine. 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. Half of the rope is solid green and half is a patterned green.

In this tutorial we used a two tone climbing rope. The rug loops at the edges aren t glued or sewn so they can get mussed when moving the rug. This tutorial requires 16 worth of clothesline rope and some hardcore crochet skills and the. This takes some skill to tie.

After googling for the beta doing our own analysis and getting a workout pulling rope through weave we now have an 2 1 3 x 1 3 4 quadruple weave rug from a retired 10 2mm x 60m climbing rope. All you have to do is coil the rope around itself to form a large circular rug. Add another fabric strip by tucking it under the rope and placing it on top of the first strip. The only supplies you need to craft this outdoor inspired decoration is a climbing rope and a lighter.

However there was an article in a rock climbing magazine from a few years ago that showed a different style that involves no knots or weaving.