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.

How to make a cotton rope rug.

The cost of materials for a 5x8 rug totaled about 300. Any kind of rope will work but i chose cotton clothesline because it s soft but durable. There are lots of ways to actually make your rug glue being a. To get the desired result on the back fold the fabric around the rope like a hot dog bun on a hot dog and let the tails stay flat while you keep sewing around and around.

Hold the coil down with your hands so it doesn t unravel. I then decided to challenge myself by making a row out of loops. Keep turning the coil and joining new rope to the coil until you reach the end of your sewn and wrapped rope. Firstly i bent the cotton sash cord around in a circular pattern glued in between and held the cord together for a few seconds.

Coil the rope until the rug is approximately 24 inches across or your desired width. Take one end of the rope and twist it in a circle as tight as you can as seen in the picture below. 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. Take the beginning end of your wrapped and sewn rope and make a small clockwise coil.

I just simply bent the rope into loops and glued. Sew with a wide zig zag stitch. Continue to twist the rope around until you get a large circle of rope. Plus it s super cheap so you can make a whole rug for less than 20.

The tails eventually become sewn as well and give more pop to the rug on this side. 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.