Hemp - Breaking in rope
Breaking in Rope
PLEASE NOTE THIS IS NOT A PROCEDURE I RECOMMEND
The process I use to treat the rope I make ensures that the integrity of the rope is maintained. Your rope should not need additional ‘breaking in’ other than normal use. Many people recommend ‘breaking in rope’ by placing the rope over a carabiner, then twisting the rope so that one rope is wrapped around another, and then pulling the rope back and forth to soften it.
This process uses one part of the rope as sandpaper on the other, and is likely to result in microfractures to the jute yarns, damaging your rope. To see why I believe this is such a bad idea, you can see the effect of rubbing ropes against each other below:
Tails
Can be used to refer to either the end of the rope or specifically the small section of rope after the knot
Ushirode Gasshō Shibari 後ろ手合掌縛り
'hands behind the back praying tie' or as it is more commonly known 'reverse prayer'. This term is used for any tie that binds the hands in a prayer position behind the back, where this is part of gote the term Gote Gasshō Shibari 後手合掌縛り - tends to be used.