How to tie (weave? plait?) a karada

There are many ways to tie a karada (see here). On this video (made by yosinomi) you can see another method not covered in the Technique section. The idea is, of course, the same. I can’t agree with how the bottom part is fixed (I would prefer my way), though.

Please note that Yosinomi does not make any knots until the very last step. I would call it a pure Japanese way – no knots.

BTW, what is the best word to use for tying a karada? Tie? Bind? Weave? Plait? Make?

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“Self-bondage” in different languages

How do people from different part of the world bind themselves? Just search the Internet using the word “self-bondage” in another language.

In many languages people simply transliterate the English “self-bondage”. For example, in Japanese it will be “Serufu-bonteji”.

Language Translation Meaning, Comments
English self-bondage
Dutch zelfbondage self-bondage
German Selbstfesselung self-fettering
Russian селфбондаж
самосвязывание
transliteration of self-bondage
self-binding
Japanese 自縛
セルフボンデージ
self-lashing (borrowed from Chinese)
transliteration of self-bondage
Chinese 自縛 self-lashing
Czech samosvazováni self-binding
Bulgarian самообездвижване self-restriction
France l’auto-bondage self- or auto-bondage
Italian self bondage
Swedish självbondage self–bondage
Let’s help each other with the proper translation! Please comment on this thread!

Can this be considered self-bondage?

bondage artCan this be considered a self-bondage method?
Probably not, but definitely worth thinking about…

Place the mouse pointer over the image.

Author: Lilish28


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Self-bondage in singleglove

Update Nov 12, 2009: See also this post.

Just found this picture showing one of the “most dreamed about” scenario: self-bondage in single-glove.

I still can’t find any safe ways of doing that. The method pictured on the left is the most dangerous one. Don’t try that at home alone!

This is the Japanese text accompanying the image:

自縛娘です。自分では上げられないチャックをドアノブに引っ掛けた糸で上げて、あとはひと思いに・・・(爆てか、この状況に一人でもってこれるか疑問ではありますが(汗
例によって脱出手段をまったく考えてない絵なので、絶対真似しないでくださいorz

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