What do you do when your ropes are past their functional best? Keep them in a tangled heap in the garage, or chuck them away? One man in the US has used his artistic skills to give tatty old rope a new purpose in some stunning reincarnations, from abstract geometric floormats to large-scale portraits and rug-ged mountain landscape designs.
As research for an upcoming article on re-using climbing gear creatively, I contacted Micky Tresemer to find out more about his work...
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