The Blue Rope Chair

A project about repairing a broken chair.

By Olivia Sahl

I was really lucky to find this chair at a thrift store for free!

At first i wanted to cover the hole chair in rope, but the metal part of the chair was actually in nice condition so i had to show it.

I found this nice blue 10mm rope from my local hardware store, but the ideal would deffently be to find rope at a thrift store to have a 100% environmentally friendly chair.

You also need a 0,6mm thin polyester thread to close the ends of the rope.

Of course you could always switch up the colours according to your taste.

I started of by securing the rope to the chair with a clove hitch in the right corner og the chair.

Then you pull the rope around the one side and then over to the other side. I had to continue this process 17,5 times to cover the seat of the chair.

Then i closed of the weaving by doing a clove hitch in both corners of the chair.

Know the rope is secured on the chair.

To close of the ends you have to twist the thin white thread around the ends in 2 layers, and then melt it in place. You also have to melt the thick end of the rope to correctly secure it.

My chair had a missing metal rod and that is being replaced with the blue rope.

Firstly you have to drill a hole which the rope can come though. I used a 10mm drill and then filled the edges.

Then tie a clove hitch on the top of the chair and then just a normal knot in the other end.

And then do the last melting and twisting to close op the ends of the rope.