I discovered last fall that my new shade cloth ordered in the summer of 2019 had developed 2 holes where the cloth was rubbing up on the plastic knob of the Bungee cord. A few days ago I used 1 mm aluminum Bonsai wire to basically knit the holes closed, wire the two ends together. Now the knitting job does not look to pretty but who cares since you cannot see it and I know it is not going to come loose. I earlier had cut a hole in the cloth trying to remove the tag from the cloth. That hole was also closed with 1 mm aluminum wire and it did not come undone all summer and fall.

So make sure when your installing the Bungee cords not to let the plastic knob come in contact with your shade cloth. Also make sure the dumbo (me) holding scissors knows where to cut!!