Diy | Welcome Abode Accent Carpet | Modern Macramé Book

Today, we're super-stoked to last sharing a DIY from artist/designer, Emily Katz's novel book, Modern Macramé, 33 Stylish Projects for Your Handmade Home (from Ten Speed Press). Some of you lot may know Emily from her instagram account, or peradventure you lot cause got taken ane of her sold-out macramé workshops she's taught about the world, but if not, allow us say you, Emily creates some pretty swoon-worthy aspirational interiors as well as her custom hand-knotted pieces are at the pump of this age-old arts and crafts that's undergoing a huge renaissance correct now.

The projection we're honoured to portion amongst you lot today is her Welcome Home Accent Rug, which is non exclusively a functional everyday basic, it tin post away totally last adapted to fit your specific needs/size. For me, I cause got a specific width I demand for our entryway, as well as wanted it also to last extra long to travel downwards the hallway, therefore this projection seems perfect for that, addition it looks super elementary to brand as well as pretty enough, it could fifty-fifty instruct a wall hanging! Check it out below.

Welcome Home Accent Rug
Reprinted amongst permission from Modern Macrame: 33 Stylish Projects for Your Handmade Home past times Emily Katz, copyright (c) 2018. Published past times Ten Speed Press, a segmentation of Penguin Random House, Inc. Text as well as tutorial photographs (c) 2018 past times Emily Katz; Interior blueprint photographs (c) 2018 past times Nicole Franzen

WELCOME HOME ACCENT RUG

I’m an avid collector of textiles, amongst piles of rugs about the house, but finding the correct doormat has proven a challenge. Of course, this is just why it pays to last a maker—when you lot can’t observe something you lot want, you lot tin post away arrive yourself! So I knotted upwards just the affair I wanted, a functional, everyday basic that is adaptable inwards trend as well as purpose depending on the materials used. On the next pages, you’ll observe its basic pattern, addition a few variations to utilisation equally a springboard for making just the affair you lot wish for your space.

SUPPLIES
514' jute rope (¼" diameter)
Washi or masking tape

FINISHED SIZE
22" broad past times 28" long, addition 7" fringe at each end

KNOTS & TECHNIQUES (see divide PDF below)
Lark’s Head Knot (LHK)
Square Knot (SK)
Alternating Rows/Rounds of Two (or More) Square Knots
Horizontal Double Half Hitch (HDHH)

SUGGESTED SETUP
Supported Dowel or Hanging Dowel (see note)

CUT LIST
Twenty-eight 18' lengths
Two 5' lengths

PREPARATION
1. Tape off a 22" workspace on the dowel.
2. Mount all twenty-eight 18' ropes on the dowel using LHKs as well as infinite them evenly across the workspace.
3. Starting from the middle of an LHK, mensurate 7" about the dowel as well as downwards the front end of the leftmost cord. Mark this indicate amongst a slice of tape. Repeat on the right; as well as then connect the 2 points past times gently securing a length of record horizontally across all of the cords, making certain they rest evenly spaced as well as are non twisted. [A]

KNOTTING
- Be certain to tighten each HDHH just plenty to travel along it positioned straight below the LHK inwards a higher house it. If your knots aren’t tight enough, as well as then this row volition destination upwards wider than you’d like. If they are equally good tight, the row volition last equally good narrow.
- Be careful non to comprise the ends of the filler cord into the subsequent knotting.

4. Leaving an 8" tail, piece of employment a row of HDHHs from left to correct about ane of the 5' ropes using the record draw of piece of employment equally a guide as well as removing it equally you lot piece of employment your agency across. [B]

5. Work xix alternating rows of 2 SKs, or until you lot cause got roughly 12" of rope remaining on each cord. Be certain to destination amongst a row that has SKs at its left as well as correct edges. [C]

6. Directly below the final row of 2 SKs, piece of employment a row of HDHHs from left to correct using the other 5' rope equally the filler cord, as well as ane time to a greater extent than leaving an unopen to 8"-long tail inwards the filler cord earlier knotting.

FINISHING
7. Trim all of the cords along the bottom edge, equally good equally both ends of the filler cords from the 2 rows of HDHH, to close 7". [D]

8. To create fringe at the top, cutting each rope at the middle of its LHK. [E]

Snip ane close the middle first; as well as then piece of employment your agency out toward the edges. [F]

VARIATIONS
TRY Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 DIFFERENT TYPE OF ROPE: The elementary blueprint of this carpet lends itself to a diverseness of materials, from cotton fiber to wool to synthetics. If you lot direct a rope amongst a unlike diameter than the ane given, last aware that the size of your finished carpet volition differ, equally volition the amount of textile you lot volition demand to consummate it. Be certain to start past times working upwards a swatch (see page 34) of the knotting pattern inwards your chosen material.

MAKE STRIPES: Use multiple colors of rope to create vertical striping. Choose an allover striping pattern for a to a greater extent than traditional await or experiment amongst asymmetry!

TRY Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 DIFFERENT KNOTTING PATTERN: The allover knotting pattern I used is just ane alternative of many that would piece of employment here. Simple ASKs would piece of employment beautifully equally well, or travail your manus at designing your ain repeating SK pattern. As long equally the knot spacing is similar to that inwards the pattern, you lot tin post away just utilisation the given cutting listing unchanged. I don’t recommend using a less-dense knotting pattern than the ane given, equally it may number inwards a carpet that is delicate as well as lumpy underfoot.

SHORTEN THE FRINGE: The fringe tin post away last trimmed equally small equally 4" without sacrificing durability.

ADJUST THE WIDTH: To brand a carpet of a unlike width, you lot volition demand to adjust 2 things, the number of ropes used for knotting as well as the length of the 2 shorter ropes used equally filler cords for the HDHHs.

A. How many knotting ropes? You volition demand to cutting close 1.25 knotting ropes per 1 inch of desired width. To decide the number of ropes you lot volition demand for a carpet of whatever width, multiply your desired width (in inches) past times 1.25 as well as and then circular your answer downwards to the nearest fifty-fifty number. This is the number of knotting ropes you lot demand to cut. For example, for a carpet that is 36" wide:

36 x 1.25 = 45

So, 45 rounded downwards to the nearest fifty-fifty number gives you lot 44 ropes inwards all. Once you’ve determined how many ropes you lot volition need, record off a workspace of your desired width as well as infinite this number of ropes evenly across it. If you’d similar to alter the length of your carpet equally well, run across Adjust the Length (at right) earlier you lot start cutting.

B. How long should the filler cords be? These ropes demand to last equally long equally your slice is wide, addition 14" for fringe as well as close 4" for wiggle room. To brand a 36"-wide rug, for example, you lot would demand 2 ropes of 54" each, ane for each row of HDHH.
ADJUST THE LENGTH: To alter the length of the rug, you lot volition demand to adjust the length of the knotting ropes. For each 1 inch of finished carpet length, you lot volition demand close 7¼ inches of rope length. To calculate the total length needed for each knotting rope, multiply your desired carpet length (excluding fringe) past times 7.25, as well as then add together 14" for fringe. For example, for a carpet that is 60" long:

lx x 7.25 = 435"

435 + xiv = 449" (37'5") of length per rope

Note: Supported Dowel Clothing racks laden amongst tools, cutting ropes, as well as industrial plant inwards progress are a constant inwards my studio. They’re a peachy house to travel along everything organized as well as hang many kinds of projects spell you lot piece of employment on them. If your infinite is limited, however, a well-secured curtain, shower, or cupboard rod tin post away piece of employment just equally well.

Hanging Dowel Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 dowel tin post away also last hung from the ceiling using hooks as well as scraps of rope. To practise this, outset install 2 hooks inwards the ceiling several inches closer together than the length of the dowel. Then, mensurate how far below the hooks you lot would similar the dowel to hang. Tie the ends of a slice of bit rope together securely to cast a loop that roughly matches this measuring when pulled taut. Repeat amongst a instant slice of rope to cast a instant loop. Place ane loop over each hook, as well as and then convey the dowel through both loops therefore that it hangs horizontally. If you’d similar to heighten your piece of employment equally it grows longer, just retie the loops as well as brand them smaller, or laid upwards the dowel straight on the hooks.