Make An Old T-Shirt Into Rope

Do you have a lot of old t-shirts/undershirts sitting around? Along with varnishing, cleaning, polishing, etc., those shirts can be turned into rope! One shirt yields about 5 feet of twisted cotton rope, in less than 30 minutes.

Materials
Old shirt
Scitssors

Step 1: 1.) Cutting

Start at the bottom of the shirt, and cut "around" in a spiral fashion (see picture). The strip can be as wide as you like, depending on how thick you want the rope to be, but in general, 1.5 inches is a safe amount.

Comments

[meddler]

I can see this being great for draw strings for cloth bags, hats, or other craft applications. Great idea.

[skidrum]

Thanks!

[nottotallyhere]

Dude, thanks for the instructable! Tonight I found myself with a need of rope and no way to get it, so on a whim I looked for a tutorial like this, and it came out awesome :)

[skidrum]

That's great! Glad I could help.