Give your home a fresh twist: simple ropes and chunky knots are the hottest new trend for the summer

From simple cord details and interlacing twine to chunky mariners' knots, rope ties up design this spring.

Learn to make your own knots from a £40 roll of Regatta wallpaper by Brian Yates, with clear diagrams for a sheet bend, two half hitches, reef knots and more.

With a hint of the snake charmer, the Lameese table lamp twists upwards in stiffened natural rope (64 cm from base to top of shade). Price is £375 from outthereinteriors.com, where director Jenny Hurren energetically ensures that other goods are similarly offbeat.

A continuous loop of over 400m of individual strands of brass-braided wire supports the Flux table by designer-maker Jake Phipps. "I worked out the curves by eye, experimenting with pipe cleaners," he says. There's a low coffee table, and a console. Made to order, price on application; 01748 826394; London office: 0207 978 5559; jakephipps.com

Pretty floor tiles in a clever rope design can be arranged in four different ways to make a repeating pattern of knots. They are made from "encaustic cement" which means the pattern is embedded in the tile and will not wear away. Price is £3.95 a tile, with 25 tiles to the square metre; capietra.com; 0844 915 0002; call 020 7254 4744.

Finally, London's Vitamin studio - founded in East London in 2004 by brothers Chris and Andy Vernall - have designed a lamp that is simply a bulb holder and a fabric flex with a huge knot, over which rests a mouth-blown glass shade in clear laboratory glass.

It comes in eight colours, in a small size at £130, and a large one at £160; 020 7092 9191; vitaminliving.com