There’s been a bit of discussion on Fetlife recently about single column ties and I have posted a couple of tutorials in response, e.g. a simple rule for the single column tie. This has veered off into discussion of the Somerville whch has many advantages. However, I haven’t mastered the knack of tying it with …
Like many others, I have been constantly frustrated by the instability of the standard shibari knot, often called a ‘boola boola’, used to close things like single and double column ties. In my experience, it has been something of a hit or miss affair whether this knot locks or collapses into two half hitches. In …