Colorado Spring-based blogger Rachel Denbow has written a tutorial for A Beautiful Mess on how to decorate an old aluminum chair with tribal-inspired webbing.
Besides the chair, simple items such as paracord and macrame cord in different colors, scissors, a flathead screwdriver and rubber band are needed for this tutorial.
Scroll down for the instructions or click here for the full details.
Step One: Remove webbing from your chair by cutting the straps and then unscrewing the posts on the back of your frame.
Step Two: Decide which color you want to start with, and tie a double knot around the seat of your frame at the edge of the flat front. Leave a tail of about 5".
Step Three: Wrap your cord under the central bar at the bend of the chair and up and over the top of the frame. Then wrap back under the bend of the chair, and wrap over the bottom edge of the seat frame next to where you started.
Step Four: All of your rows should wrap from the front and over the back of the frame edges. Tie a double knot around either the top or bottom frame edge, depending on where you end up.
Step Five: Weave until you are near the other end of the flat part of the frame.
Step Six: To start weaving in the other direction, just tie on the side of the frame with a double knot and leave about 5" of tail.
Step Seven: Wrap over that starting side of your frame, and come up under those first four plus the next two so that you're skipping a total of six. Mimic that same amount on the opposite side, and then come back the way you came again.
Step Eight: To create a triangular pattern, keep repeating this pattern of reducing two rows every time you go across, and then follow back the same way you came.
Step Nine: This is what it looks like to switch colors with each new triangle.
Step Ten: Trim your loose tails so that they are just long enough to tuck in and rest inside.
[via A Beautiful Mess]