Title: Theory / Unimportant / Art / Nœuds; / Shibari / you can use: japanes rope bondage and erotic macrame / Vocabulary
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Name: Bight
Definition: The point at which a rope, bent double, fold.
Page: 64
Chapter: 2
Section: Terminology and Concepts
Definition2: The middle of the rope, when folded in half
Conjdef: Either

Name: Cinch
Definition: Any rope or action that pulls two pieces of line together
Page: 64
Chapter: 2
Section: Terminology and Concepts
Example: if you have a group of lines running around a pair of wrists, and then you have another line that tightens those wrists towards each other, you have just “cinched” the wrists together.

Name: Column
Definition: Anything we can wrap rope around
Page: 64
Chapter: 2
Section: Terminology and Concepts
Example: a thigh, an upper arm, a chair leg

Name: Ends
Definition: The bit on the rope where the rope stops and the air begins.
Page: 64
Chapter: 2
Section: Terminology and Concepts
Context: Ropes

Name: Line
Page: 64
Chapter: 2
Section: Terminology and Concepts
Context: Shibari
Name2: Piece of rope

Name: Skein
Definition: Single piece of rope when it is coiled up onto itself for easy storage or access
Page: 64
Chapter: 2
Section: Terminology and Concepts
Name2: Hank
Intuition: Bundle

Name: Symmetrical thing
Definition: A thing balanced from side to side
Page: 64
Chapter: 2
Section: Terminology and Concepts
Context: Shibari

Name: Tension of a rope
Definition: The pull or tautness on a rope.
Page: 66
Chapter: 2
Section: Terminology and Concepts

Name: Twist of a rope
Definition: When a rope overlaps itself, gets pulled around itself, or in general does not lay flat.
Page: 66
Chapter: 2
Section: Terminology and Concepts
Context: Shibari

Name: Wrap
Definition: Any time a line (or in most cases in this text, a pair of lines) is wound around something—whether it is one column, two columns, or anything else—and meets back up with itself
Page: 66
Chapter: 2
Section: Terminology and Concepts
Context: Shibari

Question: Why to avoid having a piece of rope crosses anothe rope
Answer: Instead of distributing pressure, the single rope is on the bottom holds the entire pressure for the tie.
Page: 66
Chapter: 2
Section: Terminology and Concepts
Context: Shibari
Name: Wrap

Name: Niwatori
Definition: Two column tie on upper arm
Page: 75, 196
Chapter: 3, 5
Context: Shibari
Etymology: Little chicken