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Mark and Stacy Egan > Rope Rug

Photos documenting our experience with making a rug out of climbing rope.
Mark constructed a template to create a peg-board from and to serve as a guideline for when we weave the rope. This is based on analysis of an existing rope rug.
Mark constructed a template to create a peg-boa…
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Photo of the finished peg-board.
Photo of the finished peg-board.
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Start weaving the rope around the appropriate pegs, referring to template drawing to know when to go over or under.
Start weaving the rope around the appropriate p…
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First go-around is complete! Whew! Now you don't have to concentrate so much, just follow the pattern through again.
First go-around is complete! Whew! Now you do…
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Second weave complete! It's starting to shape up now!
Second weave complete! It's starting to shape…
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Third weave complete! We had thought there was only going to be enough rope for three weaves, but we realized that we had enough left for another go-around, and there was also space left in the weave too! So off again...it's getting harder to pull the rope through at this point!
Third weave complete! We had thought there was…
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Third weave complete! We originally were going to stop at 3 weaves, but we realized that we had enough rope left for another go-around, and there was also space left in the weave too! So off again...it's getting harder to pull the rope through at this point!
Third weave complete! We originally were going…
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Done weaving! This photo show how much of the 60m rope is left after doing a quadruple weave. The dimensions of the finished rug is 2 1/3' x 1 3/4'.
Done weaving! This photo show how much of the…
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To finish, we cut and burned the ends so they would fit together on the underside of the rug, and used a heavy-duty hand stitcher (Speedy Stitcher Sewing Awl) to sew them together.
To finish, we cut and burned the ends so they w…
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A quadruple-weave rug we made from retired 10.2mm x 60m climbing rope. Dimensions are 2 1/3' x 1 3/4'.
A quadruple-weave rug we made from retired 10.2…
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