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4 looks, 1 rope ⭐💧🕸️👁️

Let's tie together!

#rope art #shibari #self tie #***there's a knot-so-secret 5th shape lmk if you see it too in the video #solo #ropeart #rope tutorial #learning the ropes #quick tie #quick guide #youtube #rope web #cat's eye #all seeing eye #ra

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~ We are the cartoon heroes ~

Me and @sacrificethelamb as softer pixeled rope warriors

R/P/E: me

#all dots and lines #colour symphony #cartoon heroes #picsart #shibari #rope art #sacrifice in my ropes #the ties that bind

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Hajime Kinoko ǁ Pop (No date)

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Before the Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife there was…

Katsukawa Shunshō’s Diver and Amorous Octopus (1773-4)

Kitao Shigemasa’s Parody of the Noh Drama (Ama) (1781)

Katsukawa Shunshō, Lust of Many Women on One Thousand Nights (1786)

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Rope Techniques ~ Single Column Tie ~ Cast + Feed

Let's take a closer look at the hand movements I use when creating a single column tie with forward tension - In this video I drill a series of single column ties on my calves and breakdown the simultaneous movements I'm making - these techniques are the same I utilize when I tie an SCT on a partner:

Maintain equal tension

Protect the skin from friction

Establish and improve muscle memory

Practice fluidity in creating a flow between my two hands

Here's to the ties that bind us 🪢❤️

#shibari #learning the ropes #rope techniques #rope tutorials #kink education #single column tie #rope video #education #praxis

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Let's tie this honeycomb karada - it takes some time but once it's built, you can pop it off yourself or a partner and have it ready to go in your rope kit as a portable full body harness - it's based off of my experience with macrame techniques and my love of ferking around with wearable rope art and I hope y'all enjoy ❤️🐝🪢

#shibari #rope art #self tie #learning the ropes #solo #ropeart #quick guide #rope tutorial #rope video #kink education #decorative tie #honeycomb #karada #portable #wearable art #macrame

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Cozy in the air! ☁️

Weaved myself some head support from some old worn jute rope, it makes the world of difference. And personally I love the way my body looks in these photos. Do you? 🤭

self tie lovely help and photos: @angryasianbaby

#you look amazing #serenity #strength and beauty #beautiful ropes on beautiful people

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Charles Ray, Untitled, 1973, black and white photograph, 27 × 40 inches inches. Courtesy of Feature.

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PicsArt AI turned me corrupted clownsish 🤡

*screenshots from a video of a recent marionette suspension practice*

#shibari #picsart #my art #digital art #screenshots #clown #marionette #puppet suspension #dynamic suspension #self suspension

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I practice most days and I'm sharing these sessions on YouTube and TikTok - (👆 a viddy medley 🎥)

Come, let us practice shapes

Come, let us embrace missed takes

Come, let us give what we have for the elevation's sake

(( @PatriciaBights on both platforms ))

#knots of love from me to you #shibari #self tie #solo #suspension #praxis #going up #aerial #23 in 24 #throwing shapes

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When I'm not knotting, I'm scarlet rotting

#these are the memes of our lives #Elden boss baby

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“on days like this,

I am the house and the ghost,

responsible for my own haunting”

-Rudy Francisco

#words that paint pictures #images that speak volumes #perfect pairings #beautiful ropes on beautiful people #strength and beauty

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Let's tie my favorite hip harness for self-suspension + the top vote of my recent diamond hip harness poll: The Diamond Back

This build is a sort of hybrid between a Swiss seat and a hip harness and it's my go-to for extended aerial play. It can be modified easily to accommodate different body shapes and sizes and it's an amalgamation of many different builds I've studied over the years from many great minds in rope

1-3) To begin, I will tie a single column tie (SCT) around my low waist - I can begin with my bight on either side of my body

*take note of which side your bight enters from*

4) I have secured my SCT in line with my belly button using a Somerville bowline, you make whatever SCT you prefer. I pull my SCT downward in a slight V shape

*whichever side of your body you started with your bight to build your SCT, that is the same direction we will begin tying our first leg wrap*

1) I make my first leg wrap nice and high running just beneath my butt cheek in the back

2) I friction over and behind my hip lines and my diagonal leg line exiting toward my crotch and approximately 1/2" from my SCT knot

*experiment with the placement of this friction for your individual comfort*

3) To adjust the tension in my leg wrap, I feed slack behind me with one hand and receive it in the front of my body with my other hand

4) I pull my working lines downward eliminating my transferred slack

5) I make a second wrap of my leg tracing below my first wrap

6) I friction up and over my leg lines, exiting toward the outside of my body

1) I equalize the tension in both my leg wraps and move over my inner leg wraps

2) I move behind my leg stem

3) And I move across my leg stem, ensuring I compact down all of my frictions

*you can see I've created another intentional upside-down V shape in the angle of my leg bands, and this will allow for more freedom of movement in my hip flexor*

4) I added another rope in another colour for clarity, and I mirrored my pattern on my other leg, exiting across my front and utop the last friction knot of my first leg to encourage it to stay nice and compacted

The next element we will build is a booty rope bridge which will capture both my leg wraps in a munter hitch

1) I run my line along the lower half of the space between my leg wraps and waist wraps all the way around my backside, and to the opposite side of the front of my body

2) I run my lines from tip to base of my finger, at the front of my body where I can better see what I'm doing

3) I shift my tensioned line back and under my butt cheek

4) I cut across my butt moving lower than my previous band

5) I move from tip to base of my finger again at the front of my body where it's easier to see what I'm doing

6) I slide that line back under my other butt cheek

7) I move up diagonally across both of my standing booty lines

8) I friction over and behind both lines exiting towards my crotch

9) to complete my munter hitch, I move my line from tip to base of finger again, exiting toward the front of my body

I take time to equalize the size of my booty bridge loops by adjusting my munter hitch, as well as flattening my leg wraps so they lay nice and flat like bands which will be much more comfortable when we take this harness into the air later

2) I move straight across the front of my harness running right above my previous pass

3) I continue to trace my previous wrap to the back

4) I make a simple twist around the top of my booty bridge friction moving my lines from tip of finger to base

5-6) I exit above my standing booty bridge band, pulling up slightly to maintain tension, exiting toward the front of my body

1) I added another scrap of rope in a third colour for clarity, and I continue the build by moving directly across the front of my harness again utop my previous pass

2) I make a half hitch (HH) around my booty band placing it in my natural gluteal divot

*experiment with placement of your HH here for individual comfort*

3) I tension my HH by pulling slightly upwards as I exit diagonally up toward my hip lines

4) I capture my hip lines with a simple twist, pulling downward into another slight V shape, I exit beneath my opposite booty band to create a mirrored HH on the other side of my butt

5-6) I maintain firm tension and pull these bands upwards slightly before completing my second HH and exiting toward the front of my body

1) Now we will perform a very tight weave and create a reverse half moons friction to incorporate our mid bands securely into our front harness bar. To begin, I move across the front of my harness running my lines above all of the previous passes

2) Weave from tip to base of finger

3) Continue behind the other side of my hip lines from tip to base of finger

4) I carefully cinch and compact the top of my half moons friction, careful not to overly tension my top midline pass as I cinch, and ensuring I don't accidentally nip up flesh or clothing in my ropes as I weave

5) I move over all of my midline bands, and under my leg stems following tip to base of finger

6) I carefully cinch and pull my working lines away from my flesh and leggings

7) continue behind my other leg stem moving my lines from tip to base of finger

8) I move over all of the midlines again, and back under my hip lines following tip to base of finger

9) With my half moons weave completed, all I need to do now is finish with my rope ends

1) You can finish your ends as you see fit, here I'm simply splitting my working ends and running one is them through my original SCT bight

2) half a square knot

3) the second half of a square knot

4-6) a look at the completed diamond back hip harness

Click here for a video guide to tying this harness as well as a look at how it maintains during transitions in suspension

If you give this build a go, I would love to hear about it! Feel free to tag me here or on any other platform we're grooving together on ❤️

Knots of love from me to you 💋🪢

#shibari #rope #self tie #rope tutorial #kink education #suspension #diamond harness #learning the ropes #hip harness #pictutorial

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Something simple with @ropesbypatricia 💕 Check out my pinned post for more 💋

#pretty in pink #kata ashi #beautiful rope on beautiful people #articulation

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Ropecabulary:

My understanding and usage of some common words and phrases found in rope bondage:

*These are not the only definitions for these words within and without the world of shibari and other people may have different understandings and experiences of these words - the world is a vast and rich place!*

Rope bondage: a type of bondage which utilizes rope in wrapping, binding, restraining, suspending a person, often but not exclusively, as an act of bdsm

BDSM: an acronym standing for Bondage Dominance (or Discipline) Sadism (or Submission) Masochism

Shibari: to bind or tie 

Kinbaku: the act of binding a body tightly 

*Both shibari and kinbaku are colloquially used to describe rope bondage and often interchangeably - I use shibari as a synonym for 'rope tying' and kinbaku to describe the act of exchanging energy with another by way of binding them or being bound by them - as this is my understanding and experience of the application of these words* 

Tension: as a verb and a noun - the act of applying force to stretch (v)  the state of being stretched (n)

Examples: "If you tension your harness too much, your partner won't be comfortable"

"There was not enough tension in the harness and the rope slipped down her shoulder"

Friction: the resistance to motion that occurs when two objects touch - in rope bondage it is a series of movements that captures tension where two or more ropes meet. So what that looks like in rope bondage is varied and numerous as friction may occur any place where two rope paths interact - a munter hitch is a friction, a half hitch is a type of friction, a simple twist is a type of friction, an x friction is a friction, etc...

Examples of frictions:

Bight: A loop of rope, as distinct from the rope's ends

When you fold your rope in half, the middle curve or loop created is called the "middle bight"

Rope ends/tails/working end: the ends of a length of rope, as distinct from its middle bight.

The ends of the rope describe the two ends of a length of rope which has been folded in half for shibari practice - these may be knotted at the end of finished in another manner

The physical ends of the rope also guide the ''working end'' of your rope which is another term for the length of rope continuing out from the bight or initial anchor point

Examples: "I secured my single column tie around their ankle and continued wrapping my working end up their leg"

"I like to make sure my rope ends are tucked away when I've finished building a harness." 

Column: the body part or thing you are tying around

Examples: an arm, a torso, a chair leg, a pillow, etc..

Single column tie: a secured cuff of rope encircling one column or encircling more than one column together as one column without any cross-axis cinch

Double column tie: a single column tie which has been divided or cinched by a cross-axis rope, a secured cuff of rope which encircles 2 or more columns distinctly from each other by way of a cinch rope or kunuki

Rope burn/mark/bite: an impact impression left on the skin after contact with rope, either for an extended period of time or by way of a shearing force of rope against flesh. Rope marks differ in degree of presence and severity and take many visual forms such as depressed areas of the skin, red marks, purplura, and bruising. These marks should resolve in reasonable time after the responsible ropes are removed. 

Examples: 

Forward tension: a directional wrapping or tying movement in rope bondage which assembles each subsequent wrap by moving in the same direction as distinct from reversing tension at a friction point

Reverse tension: a directional wrapping or tying movement in rope bondage which assembles each subsequent wrap by reversing direction on a friction point

Bukashi/Rope Top/Rigger: one who gives or applies rope distinct from one who receives or is bound by rope aka the bunny

Ukete/Rope Bottom/Bunny: one who receives rope, one who is bound in rope in kinbaku distinct from the one who is tying or giving the rope aka the top

#shibari #kink education #learning the ropes #ropecabulary #glossary

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(⛦) Pentagram hip harness (⛦)

#shibari #pentagram #self tie #learning the ropes #solo #rope art #hip harness #pentagram harness #WIP #red rope #cheetah panties