Note: This is part 8 of an occasional ongoing "how to" series on BDSM.
Part 1 of the series, How to Tie a Rope Harness Part I, is here.
Part 2 of the series, How to Tie a Frog Tie, is here.
Part 3 of the series, How to Tie a Shinju, is here.
Part 4 of the series, How to Make a Custom Dildo out of Ice, is here.
Part 5 of the series, How to Make a Spikey Decorative Collar, is here.
Part 6 of the series, Theory and Practice of Ginger Figging, is here.
Part 7 of the series, Rape Fantasy and Resistance Play, is here.
As you can probably figure out, most of these tutorials are really, really not work-safe.
This particular tutorial is reasonably work-safe, as long as seeing someone’s arms tied together is okay. There’s no nudity in the images in this tutorial. If it sounds like it’s up your alley, clicky the link!
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Making the tie This two-column tie starts, as most ties do, by finding the middle of the rope. As you can see, I tend to tie a small piece of thread around the middle of my rope, to make it easier to find. For the purposes of this tutorial, I’m going to show you how to tie your partner’s arms together with a no-knot two-column weave. You can do the same thing with your partner’s legs, or an arm and a leg, or whatever. Fold the rope at the middle. Lay the rope beneath your partner’s arms near the wrists. Place the loop on top of your partner’s arms as is shown below. The concept of a "loop" is important here, and one we’ll keep coming back to. Essentially, you are going to push the rope through the loop to make a second loop, then bring the rope back underneath your partner’s arms, then push the rope through the second loop to make a third loop….but I’m getting ahead of myself. So. Put the middle of the rope over your partner’s wrists. Now take the rope and push it through the middle to create a loop like you see in the right-hand side here. Describing it is much more complicated than actually doing it, I promise; when you get going, it’s easy.
Don’t pull the rope tight. Instead, just hold on to the loop and bring the rope back around under your partner’s wrists again. Then push the rope through the first loop you made, to make a second loop. Again, it’s a whole lot simpler than it looks; this is one of those things that when you try it, you’ll find it’s really easy.
You’re just going to keep doing this over and over. Bring the rope around your partner’s wrists, push it through the loop to create another loop, bring it back around, push it through the loop to create another loop, over and over. The only trick is to make sure that you don’t twist the rope; make sure it lays flat against your partner’s skin. Don’t make it too tight; you should be able to stick a finger under the rope. You don’t want to cut off circulation!
And that’s it. Just keep repeating this all the way up. When you get to the top of whatever you’re tying together, there are a few ways you can finish. The simplest thing is just make a knot at the last loop. Or, if you have a lot of rope left over, just take the two ends of the leftover rope and run them down the inside of the weave. If you want to get even fancier, take the two ends of leftover rope and go over the first turn of rope around your partner’s wrists, under the second, over the third, under the forth, and so on.
Again, sounds complicated to explain, but it’s really very simple. The whole beauty of this weave is that it looks really complicated but it’s not. Going further Once you see how easy this tie is, you’ll probably find uses for it beyond tying your partner’s arms together. You can tie an arm to a leg or tie your partner’s legs together, as I mentioned above (tying your partner’s legs together for the evening can be fun, since then you get to watch him or her hop around). Another use for his tie is to make a rope corset. Start at your partner’s waist and work your way up; you can do it with the weave in front or in back. If your partner is female, run the weave up to just beneath her breasts and tie it off between her breasts. You can place your partner’s arms around a post and then tie them together in front of the post, which will prevent your partner from going anywhere. (This can be a fun way to tie someone to a whipping post for spanking or flogging.) You can tie both the arms and the legs of your partner, then have him or her lie face down on the bed for a spanking as well. Some people are flexible enough that you can tie their arms this way behind their back, though if you want to do this, you should take care to ensure that your partner is physically able to do it and keep in mind that this position can rapidly become fatiguing. A little bit of experimentation will probably turn up all sorts of other creative uses for this lovely tie. Enjoy!
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That’s so pretty!
In other news, I am still waiting for your reply to this entry.
That’s so pretty!
In other news, I am still waiting for your reply to this entry.
Pretty! I’ve been tied up with a normal two-column tie, which is very comfy but nowhere near as pretty as this.
I shall put this to use (or rather, tell my sweetie to use it on me).
Pretty! I’ve been tied up with a normal two-column tie, which is very comfy but nowhere near as pretty as this.
I shall put this to use (or rather, tell my sweetie to use it on me).
Very cool
Very cool. I learned the same technique for weaving with ribbons or rushes on a trip to Hawaii…they said it was an ancient, native way of braiding.
🙂
aag
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Very cool
Very cool. I learned the same technique for weaving with ribbons or rushes on a trip to Hawaii…they said it was an ancient, native way of braiding.
🙂
aag
aagblog.com
off topic
as i was trying to get out of bed this morning and knelt on my own hair and got stuck, it occurred to me that you should do a piece on “using your partner’s own buttlength hair to do fun & interesting things.”
just a suggestion. ;>
Re: off topic
oh, i guess i should have used this icon, eh? heh. :>
Re: off topic
There’s a whole bunch of interesting hair-tie things that one can do, and I think they’d make an excellent topic for a tutorial. 🙂
Re: off topic
He’s already threatened … er, suggested that he use my hair to tie me up 🙂
He was particularly interested in weaving my hair together with my ex-metamour (of another partner) whose hair is just as long but blonde.
off topic
as i was trying to get out of bed this morning and knelt on my own hair and got stuck, it occurred to me that you should do a piece on “using your partner’s own buttlength hair to do fun & interesting things.”
just a suggestion. ;>
Re: off topic
oh, i guess i should have used this icon, eh? heh. :>
Re: off topic
There’s a whole bunch of interesting hair-tie things that one can do, and I think they’d make an excellent topic for a tutorial. 🙂
Re: off topic
He’s already threatened … er, suggested that he use my hair to tie me up 🙂
He was particularly interested in weaving my hair together with my ex-metamour (of another partner) whose hair is just as long but blonde.
How long is the rope you used for that?
Very. I typically use a 40′ length of rope for many of the things I do, because I like being able to do multiple ties with it. In this case, the rope still had about 25′ left after doing the weave; a piece of rope about fifteen feet long would have been enough.
How long is the rope you used for that?
Very. I typically use a 40′ length of rope for many of the things I do, because I like being able to do multiple ties with it. In this case, the rope still had about 25′ left after doing the weave; a piece of rope about fifteen feet long would have been enough.
I use the exact same method while joining crocheted pieces for scarves, oddly enough.
Wicked pretty with rope though!
I use the exact same method while joining crocheted pieces for scarves, oddly enough.
Wicked pretty with rope though!