- Bondage rope harness
A bondage rope harness, sometime also referred to as a "bondage web", "rope web", "rope dress" or "karada", is a bondage technique involving the tying of an intricate structure of rope around the body in a complex web-like fashion.
Similar in effect to a leather
bondage harness , a bondage rope harness is not in itself normally used to bind a person, but it does apply pressure over the area bound and can be used as a securing point for other bondage techniques, includingsuspension bondage . It is not normally used to bind the limbs but you can bind the arms into the harness by simply going around the arms not under, as shown in the picture. A rope dress is often used with, or integrated with, acrotch rope and/or a shinju ("pearl") breast harness.A rope dress typically takes around 10-15 m of rope to tie, and involves multiple passes of rope from front to back around the body to build up the characteristic diamond-shaped rope pattern, typically starting from a rope halter (as in the illustration) and moving down the body. In some cases, a rope harness may extend beyond the torso, into diamond-patterned webs that extend down the length of the arms or legs.
The Japanese term "karada" means simply "body". Traditionally, a distinction was made between "
kikkou " ("turtle-shell" pattern; hexagonal) and "hishi " (diamond) patterned ties, although many modern sources just use the term "kikkou" to refer to any rope body harness.See also
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Rope bondage
*Japanese bondage
* Shinju (breast harness)External links
"Note: The following links contain nudity and/or adult content."
* [http://www.japaneseropeart.com/RopeArt/Hishi_Karada/index.html Hishi Karada how-to] by Master Tatu
* [http://www.japaneseropeart.com/RopeArt/Terms.html Glossary of Japanese Bondage Terms - "See Karada"]
* [http://rare.ropemarks.com/glossary/shibari.php Glossary explaining and showing the difference between "hishi" and "kikkou" styles]
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