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www.how-to-tie-rope.com is a part of The Convolvulus Project and is intended to provide an introduction to basic rope bondage materials and methods for beginners and those looking to improve their knowledge and skills. More advanced material will appear in due course in the re-designed How To Tie section of the Convolvulus Members Paysite <www.convolvulus.net>


	N.B. More tutorial material is on the way!

ROPE BONDAGE TUTORIAL VIDEOS
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ABOUT ROPE & ROPE HANDLING
Rope & testing rope	Several kinds of rope, and how to test the suitability of rope for bondage use	D/L
Rope diameter	I talk about this ever-popular question...	D/L
Rope length	The subject that never goes away! I discuss my thoughts about it	D/L
Rope ends	I discuss whippings, overhand knots, and thistle knots	D/L
The Thistle Knot	How to tie the best knot for rope ends	D/L
De-kinking rope	Getting kinks out, folding for storage, and heat-shrink ends for synthetic rope	D/L
Storing rope	How to put your rope away for a while without setting permanent kinks into it...	D/L
Joining ropes	I show all the ways of joining doubled ropes end-to-end in Japanese bondage	D/L
Storing rope (2)	This video takes over where the first one left off, and shows the figure-eight method in full	D/L
The Gravity Boot Tie	A good tie for inverted suspensions from the ankle(s)	D/L
ABOUT TIES, TECHNIQUES, & KNOTS
Parallel-wrists ties	Both single-rope and doubled-rope methods	D/L
Crossed-wrists ties	Several variations demonstrated here	D/L
Reef and Surgeons’ knots	The weaknesses of the reef (square) knot, and a better alternative	D/L
The Boola-Boola	How to tie the standard Japanese non-tightening cuff AND get it right...	D/L
2-rope takate-kote	A one-take video showing the process from start to finish	D/L
Japanese hogtie	I develop the 2-rope TK into a japanese-style hogtie	D/L
Neobari arm tie	An arm tie with some influences from east and west	D/L

ROPE BONDAGE TUTORIAL PHOTOSETS
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2-rope takate-kote	A set of photos to accompany the video of the same name	GO
2-rope takate-kote	A .zip file of this set at bigger sizes for downloading	D/L
Free-form takate-kote	This is a much more free-flowing semi-improvised approach to the TK	GO
Free-form takate-kote	A .zip file of the images at 800px across	D/L
Parallel-wrists ties	A very small set of photos to go with the video	GO
Parallel-wrists ties	A .zip file of the images at 800px across	D/L
Crossed-wrists ties	Some photos to go with the corresponding video	GO
Crossed-wrists ties	A .zip file of the images at 800px across	D/L
Neobari arm tie	A slideshow to illustrate the video. NB here the wrist and elbow parts are separate!	GO
Neobari arm tie	A .zip file of the images at 800px across	D/L

OTHER BONDAGE TUTORIAL MATERIAL
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Storing rope	A how-to for the figure-eight method of storing shibari-size rope, in a .pdf (Acrobat) file	D/L