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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Test result from SiteAdvisor

Checked!The result of the SiteAdvisor test is:

” We tested this site and didn’t find any significant problems.”

The only “minor safety/annoyance issue” that was found was the counter from extremetracking.com, because it’s linked to free-webspace.biz which is a “distributor of malware, spyware and adware”. In order to keep the site “clean and green” I removed the counter.

Versailles vs IKEA

Why them? Last week I’ve been to both Versailles and IKEA (yes, I have good excuses for both cases šŸ˜‰ They both are big, crowdy, located on the outskirt of the cities, have pictures, beds and mirrors inside. Even the temperature (outside) was the same.

And the differences?

Clothes.

You might expect that people would dress up if they are going to visit a palais, and wear old “garden” worn out rags in a warehouse? Ha! Quite the opposite. Minidresses, miniskirts, shorts, high heels with pantyhose in IKEA. Just imagine long-legged girls (NL is the tallest nation in the world) in miniskirts and pantyhose scattered laying on beds and sofas, kids in shorts and opaque thin tights tumbling in soft toys, women on high heels, in skirts and transparent pantyhose checking the wardrobe heights …

And warm jackets, jeans, heavy boots, backpacks in Versailles. Typical tourists you would say. But there are exceptions. I’ve seen a Russian woman wearing high heeled boots with thin pantyhose and skirt on Zugspitze (at almost 3km).