TwistedMonk.com - Home. TwoKnottyBoys.com. We (Dan and JD) first began teaching interactive rope bondage workshops in 1999 at a venue in San Francisco (our hometown) called Castlebar.
Sadly, Castlebar has since closed its dungeon doors, but we pressed forward. Through the early 2000's we continued teaching at a variety of Bay Area venues. The Red Pill Room. Naturally Twisted Co. "Let's learn rope bondage!" Monkey Fetish Studios. Gallery Index. Shibari news - ESINEM. Shibari news - ESINEM.
Encordées - Leçons - Tutorials. BDSM Institute - Home. Fesselzeit. Tacit: How to Make a Rope Harness... Part I: Making a Basic Rope Harness In shibari, a rope harness that wraps around the torso is called a "karada.
" While some forms of shibari are highly ritualized, with specific names given to different styles of knot and different parts of the harness, a more relaxed and informal style of rope bondage is a lot of fun. The simple karada shown here is very easy to make. Crash Restraint. When attaching support lines to a harness for suspension, I use a novel method that people frequently ask me about, and I've been meaning to document for a long time.
Serendipitously, I ran into Kali from Kink Academy a few months ago at Wicked Grounds, and she asked me to film some instructional videos for them on suspension -- so I managed to slip this in there, and they've graciously agreed to allow me to use screenshots from those videos to illustrate a blog post here. This method was inspired by the Tatu hitch , during a Fetlife discussion whose details are now murky in my memory -- in any case credit is due both Tatu and Jack Elfrink for making me aware of that knot, upon which this is based.
Things needing names, and this technique using the first half of a Tatu hitch, I suppose we could call it the half-Tatu hitch.