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Shibari Sessions @shibarisessions.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The Rope Library, No. 9: rope as performance — kabuki, Tokyo stages, festival weekends, Folsom daylight. An audience changes a tie. Done well, the room doesn't interrupt the exchange — it witnesses it. www.shibarisessions.com/library

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Shibari Sessions @shibarisessions.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Rope Library, No. 8: SSC, RACK, PRICK, CNC — where the consent frameworks came from and what rope actually does with them. The acronyms fit on a flyer. The work happens in the conversation. www.shibarisessions.com/library

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Shibari Sessions @shibarisessions.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Meet Mew. Soft lines. Strange beauty. Rope that feels like jewelry. One of the artists on the floor at ShibARTi — quiet, pretty intensity. More soon. #ShibARTi #ShibariSessions

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Shibari Sessions @shibarisessions.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The Rope Library, No. 7: nawashi, schools, and lineages. The titles aren't ancient — the magazine era invented them. Rope is young enough that every chain of teachers ends in living memory. Close enough to say thank you. www.shibarisessions.com/library

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Shibari Sessions @shibarisessions.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Tonight 7–8 PM · Montrose Center 107 — Staging a Shibari Scene. Concept, light, composition. Free for ShibARTi applied artists · no payment to apply. Link in bio.

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Shibari Sessions @shibarisessions.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The Rope Library, No. 6: rope claims a samurai ancestor — hojojutsu. Partly true, mostly legend. Ito Seiu borrowed the imagery; artists built the rest in the last hundred years. Not its descendants — its reinvention. www.shibarisessions.com/library

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Shibari Sessions @shibarisessions.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The Rope Library just grew: Nos. 6–10 are live — hojojutsu & myth, nawashi & lineages, consent frameworks, performance & festivals, photography & the gaze. Free to read. shibarisessions.com/library/

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Shibari Sessions @shibarisessions.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The Rope Library, No. 5: queer, BIPOC, and women-led communities stopped waiting to be included and built their own rooms. Consent practices the whole scene now uses started there. The history of rope is a history of people making room. www.shibarisessions.com/library

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Shibari Sessions @shibarisessions.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The Rope Library, No. 4: how kinbaku traveled west — magazine pages in luggage, then Midori, Yukimura Haruki, Osada Steve, Naka Akira. Transmission is legitimate with study, credit, and respect. Western rope is kinbaku's descendant, not its copy. www.shibarisessions.com/library

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Shibari Sessions @shibarisessions.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Tied Together is live for subscribers — over 600 entries: organizations, groups, events, vendors. Search, spin the globe, free widget, claim what you run. Subscribe for free: shibarisessions.com/tied-together

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Shibari Sessions @shibarisessions.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Forty artists. One room. One night. ShibARTi 2026 · Nov 14 · Montrose Center. Shibari Sessions presents; benefiting BoundHTX and The Montrose Center. Judges + sponsors locked. Artists & vendors: shibarisessions.com/shibarti 18+

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Shibari Sessions @shibarisessions.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Now dyeing with fiber reactive dyes — color bonded into the fiber itself, deeper and more vibrant. It's what made this Aqua possible. Same conditioned jute underneath, soft and ready to tie the day it lands. shibarisessions.com

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Shibari Sessions @shibarisessions.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Proud to announce: Allison Retina Stewart-Creeks joins ShibARTi 2026 as our Composition Judge — creative director, curator, photographer, educator, and author. Composition asks where the eye goes and whether the whole piece holds. ShibARTi · Nov 14 · Montrose Center · shibarisessions.com/shibarti

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Shibari Sessions @shibarisessions.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The Rope Library, No. 3: the postwar Japanese magazines that built rope culture — Kitan Club, SM Fan, SM Sniper. Reader columns connected isolated enthusiasts decades before the internet, and censorship shaped an aesthetic of suggestion over display. www.shibarisessions.com/library

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Shibari Sessions @shibarisessions.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Every good night needs someone to tell the story. The Kinky Bros Podcast joins ShibARTi 2026 as Media Sponsor. Gryff & Jason: real-life brothers, two perspectives on kink. Nov 14, Montrose Center, Houston. Proceeds to Montrose Center & BoundHTX. thekinkybros.com | shibarisessions.com | 18+

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Shibari Sessions @shibarisessions.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

There’s a Rope Library article coming soon on gender, power, and role dynamics in rope. I keep those more fact-based. Wanted to write this one with a little more feeling. Full 5-slide carousel on IG @rope.art.htx #ShibariSessions #RopeArt #Kinbaku

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Shibari Sessions @shibarisessions.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Proud to announce: Jaymes Mansfield joins ShibARTi 2026 as Creativity Judge — Drag Race S9 & All Stars 8. Creativity takes imagination, raw expression, and fierce purpose. More of the panel soon. ShibARTi · Nov 14 · Houston · shibarisessions.com/shibarti 18+

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Shibari Sessions @shibarisessions.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Proud to announce: Houston City Council Member Mario Castillo joins ShibARTi 2026 as our Cultural Impact Judge — native Houstonian, LGBTQ+ leader, City Arts & Culture Committee. First judge announcement — more soon. ShibARTi · Nov 14 · The Montrose Center · shibarisessions.com/shibarti 18+.

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Shibari Sessions @shibarisessions.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Tied Together is almost here — over 600 entries: organizations, groups, events, and vendors. Search, spin the globe, free widget, claim what you run. Subscribers get first access: shibarisessions.com/tied-together

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Shibari Sessions @shibarisessions.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The Rope Library, No. 2: Ito Seiu (1882–1961), the father of modern kinbaku — the painter who first treated erotic rope as worthy of an artist's full attention. Every modern rope photograph exists in a lineage that runs back through him. www.shibarisessions.com/library

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Shibari Sessions @shibarisessions.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Private Shibari lessons meet you where you are — first tie, cleaner tension, transitions that make a tie feel like one thought instead of twelve. One on one, your pace, my studio in Houston. DM @rope.art.htx on IG to talk lessons.

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Shibari Sessions @shibarisessions.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I've been quietly building something: Tied Together — over 600 rope communities, studios, festivals & makers worldwide. One globe, 202 city pins, tags that matter. Put it on your own site — always free. Subscribers get first access. shibarisessions.com

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Shibari Sessions @shibarisessions.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Vendor applications are open for ShibARTi 2026 — Nov 14, The Montrose Center, Houston. Artists & Shibari groups/orgs/goods: 2×4 $75 · 2×8 $150. All other vendors: 2×8 $200. Silent auction item instead of cash? Case by case. Very limited tables. Apply: vendors.shibarisessions.com 18+ event.

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Shibari Sessions @shibarisessions.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The Rope Library, No. 1: shibari means "to tie" — an everyday word in Japan. Kinbaku means "tight binding" and carries the erotic charge. The West borrowed the softer word. The rope is the same rope; the words carry the history. www.shibarisessions.com/library

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Shibari Sessions @shibarisessions.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

ShibARTi returns Nov 14, 2026 at The Montrose Center — 40 artists, floor work only, judged on composition, skill, creativity, impact. Proceeds split between The Montrose Center & BoundHTX. Applications open: apply.shibarisessions.com

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Shibari Sessions @shibarisessions.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I rebuilt my website. Same address — shibarisessions.com — but everything is new: rope, gear, and fine-art prints in one shop, booking in two clicks, and a look that finally matches the work. Go take a look.

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Shibari Sessions @shibarisessions.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Shibari Sessions is proud to announce Dyes That Bind as our Exhibit Sponsor for ShibARTi — a queer woman-owned shibari rope studio hand-dyeing small-batch nylon rope in North Carolina. Bondage is better in color. Nov 14 · The Montrose Center · shibarisessions.com/shibarti #shibari #dyesthatbind

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Shibari Sessions @shibarisessions.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Check out our new spun polyester, the gold standard for suspension now with diameters perfect for floor ties, soft with the hold of natural fibers this rope will last 3-5 times longer than jute or hemp. Up now on the website

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Shibari Sessions @shibarisessions.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Intro price at www.shibarisessions.com

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