@synapticfool: Thank you! If you have a lot of extra rope, it’s easiest to embellish each part of the harness – if you leave it all to the end you’re limited to that one little area to “burn the rope” (as it’s called). If you don’t mind trailing rope, you can always just daisy-chain it and let it hang (prettily). But if you want the finished product to be very compact, I’d recommend winding the rope around itself in various areas as you go, that way you gradually make it shorter (you can see what I mean in the very last steps of our rope gag tutorial here). Another way would be to just double-up steps. So if you’re supposed to criss-cross a rope once, just do it twice. I hope that made sense!
@crimsonduex: For books, I like Douglas Kent (even though he gets a bit of flack from purists, it’s still a good resource for beginners) as well as the Knotty Boys (you can find both on Amazon).
A Passion Play (medium - advanced traditional kinbaku picture tutorials)
And this insanely detailed FetLife post, with videos and infographics, and a huge list of ties & how to do them. If you don’t have an account I urge you to join just to see it !
@kyo696 & @jip28: thank you & you’re very welcome <333
There’s a lot of ways to wrap rope, this is just the one I know that lets you do the ‘fling’ (if you’ve ever seen a live show, it’s when the nawashi needs a new rope to connect so they pick up a bundle and whip it away from them and it unfurls majestically)
@anon: To do the Dragonfly Sleeve in the front, tie the knots from step 1-4 down the front like in the Tortoise Shell (step 2-6). But when you loop around to catch either side of the knots, include the arms instead of just going round the torso. Hopefully that makes sense– if you have any trouble let me know and I can do a tutorial! :)
@bonyhands123: I really like Ladders, or anything with a lot of pretty hitches… but recently I’ve been obsessed with the woven look. I definitely go through phases of favourite ties (≧◡≦) ♡