Rope

a sketch of j. and l. at my home studio at the rope/technique lab i host very occasionally. i would like to start this up again with some regularly but need a co-organizer. it’s been hard to find the balance between intimacy within a regular group and enough people to fill out the space (at max we’ve had 15 people, at minimum just a couple) unless i make this a more public event rather than invite-only; i do want to make it more public, but am having a hard time figuring out how to manage the transition into what i would want to be a more formalized setting where i define ground rules for the space. ...

Rope Lab 8 I rarely go to the “segregate all text in a text box” route but tried it this time. The image of the back of an Akechi Denki 3-TK is done by me.

ASCII Dwarf Fortress Y2K handdrawn.

Flyer for an edition of rope lab hosted at NaE. Image is from a test of floating hashira suspension on W. This formerly has been just a lab for close friends who I wanted to teach how to tie when they couldn’t afford bay area prices, but after seeing a few DIY jams in Manila and in the bay, I’m trying to think about how to open up this lab to the broader community. ...

Made this after a Fleet Ilya piece that isn’t in production anymore but that I’ve always really admired. This was my first time developing a leather bra and it took just a few iterations. I altered the original FI design to allow the bra and the corset to be worn either separately or together. I tried to oil-dye jute for the back rope, and that did not go well at all because I used dip-dyeing and the rope has still not shed its excess oil after hours of buffing. I ended up just using plain jute for Fait’s Folsom performances. ...