How To Make A Cotton Rope Rug

I just simply bent the rope into loops and glued.

How to make a cotton rope rug.

The hardest part about making a rope rug is gathering the supplies and finding the time to actually make the darn thing. I then decided to challenge myself by making a row out of loops. 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. 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. Hold the coil down with your hands so it doesn t unravel. Take the beginning end of your wrapped and sewn rope and make a small clockwise coil. Firstly i bent the cotton sash cord around in a circular pattern glued in between and held the cord together for a few seconds.

Plus it s super cheap so you can make a whole rug for less than 20. Next weave the cut cotton pieces in between the netting grid as shown in the photo. Sew with a wide zig zag stitch. The tails eventually become sewn as well and give more pop to the rug on this side.

Any kind of rope will work but i chose cotton clothesline because it s soft but durable. Keep turning the coil and joining new rope to the coil until you reach the end of your sewn and wrapped rope. The cost of materials for a 5x8 rug totaled about 300. To start out the rug make sure your on a flat slightly slippery surface such as a wood or tile floor.

Then pull the pieces upward and tie them together with a rubber band again as shown in the photo. Watch the quick video hereto visualize it. I continued gluing until i had approximately twelve rows. There are lots of ways to actually make your rug glue being a.