1797 III. 38/1 The vacant spaces between the stanchions are commonly filled with rope-mats, cork, or pieces of old cable.
1849 Oct. 91 Hands like a bunch of carrots—hair something uglier than a rope mat—water elegantly reproduced by the heraldic wavy—and clouds literally nebuly.
1999 72 32 (caption) A woven rope mat with G2 symmetry.