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• Anchorage knot (Noeud d'ancrage): This the only specific human-bondage knot I know. It is a variant of the bowline knot (cf. this knot) in which the loop is replaced by several loops passing in the same knot. You can tie the loops around one of your limbs and tie the other end of the rope with a simple bowline knot to a piece of heavy furniture. The advantage of this knot is that it doesn't tighten under traction; thus  you can adjust the tightness at the beginning of the scenario and it will keep it until its end how fiercely you thrash in your bonds. Another advantage is that it spreads the pressure over a large area (the one covered by the whole set of loops); it is thus more comfortable and less susceptible to cause sleeping limbs. (see fig. 0)

Fig. 0: Anchorage knot

• Bowline knot (Noeud de chaise): It is the most efficient way to tie a loop. With this knot you are sure that the loop will neither get looser nor tighter and it will be easily untied at the end of the scenario. It is the knot that seamen most frequently use and you will easily find how to tie it. I use it to tie a rope to a solid object (bed foot, furniture, heater, etc.), or to tie a loop around some part of my body (but in this case I prefer to use a special variant of the bowline knot (see "anchorage knot").
• Cinch (Velture): The most efficient and elegant way to tie two limbs together in parallel. You begin by wrapping a few coils around them leaving some slack, then you wrap several new coils around the first coils, just between the limbs, finishing by a square knot. This way, you can spread the pressure on a larger skin area and can finely adjust the tightness of the bond. (See Fig.1). On the Lillan's nexus, you will find a way to tie a cinch on your wrists yourself; this particular cinch is made of two separate strands but the final effect and look is alike. I shall refer to this one as the (Lillan's) self-cinch (see fig. 4).

Fig.1: The upper bond is a coils, the two lower (ankles and toes) are cinches

• Coils (Tours morts): A simple mean to tie two limbs in parallel: The rope is simply wrapped around them several (it could be a many) times, tightened and tied fith a square knot. You cans as well make a "decorative" coils by wrapping them around a single object. (See fig.1)
• Cross cinch (Brélage): I don't know the exact english name of this knot (I would be interested to learn it). It is used to tie two crossed limbs together. It is made of a first set of coils in one plane followed by a second set wrapped in the perpendicular plane to the first; a square knot complete the whole thing (See fig. 2).

Fig. 2: Her ankles are tied together with a cross-cinch. Remark too the decorative coils that connect her ankles to her waist.

• Hangman knot or hanging knot (Noeud de pendu): This beautiful knot you can see in most western movies used to hang peoples to the trees (see fig. 3). I don't use it likewise though. In fact, I rarely use it, but what I like in this knot is that, if it is thightly made, the loop can be shortened simply by pulling on it but is the very difficult to reopen. It is why it can be dangerous too, if you have no other mean to free yourself. Use it cautiously. It is at the base of the Lillan's self cinch (cf. "cinch")

Fig. 3: The hangman knot (the one around the neck of this poor girl)

• Lillan's self-cinch (Auto-velture de Lillan): See "cinch" and fig. 4.

Fig. 4: The Lillan's self cinch

• Self-cinch (Auto-velture): See "cinch" and fig. 4.
• Square knot (Noeud plat): The simplest knot. The first you have learnt. It is used to tie two strands together. Well made, it is easy to tie and to untie.
• Tent knot (Noeud de tente): It is also known as the Bow-rope knot (Noeud de corde d'arc) Originally, this knot is conceived to tighten stays like those of a tent when you don't have a pulley or any other proper tool. You can imagine it like a slip knot but here the knot doesn't move when the loop is shortened; to shorten the loop, you have to pull on the end of the strand exiting of the knot. By closing the loop, you shorten the stay and what is very useful is that this knot cannot be loosened while under tension. Thus you can easily shorten any rope while you are self-bonded. I find it better than the rings system described in Lillan's nexus but it has the same effect. The Tent-knot is very easy to do (but difficult to explain; see the fig.5): make a half-knot (the rope is knoted on itself in the most simple manner); this half-knot with work as a pulley, thus place it accordingly. Loop the end of the rope and pass it inside the lower part of the half-knot, just under the point where it was just going out, in the same direction. Tighten the half-knot. By pulling on the free end, you can close the loop, but the loop will not reopen if you pull at it, at least is the strands of the loop are parallel, I mean if the loop looks like a doubled rope. You can hook anything in the loop and by pulling on the free end, you will take away any slack.

Fig.5: How to make a Tent-knot

  Je ne vais pas ici donner une définition de tous ces termes. Je vais simplement vous donner la correspondance français-anglais de tous les termes définis ci-dessus. Si vous ne comprenez pas un traître mot d'anglais, je crains donc que ce glossaire ne vous soit que d'une piètre utilité...
  Notez au passage que plusieurs des techniques d'auto-ligotage décrites en anglais dans le Lillan's nexus ont été adaptées en français sur le site Passions Fétichistes. Je pense que cela vaut vraiment le détour.
 

• Auto-velture = Self-cinch (v.fig. 4)
• Brélage = Cross cinch (v. fig. 2)
• Noeud d'ancrage = Anchorage knot (v. fig. 0)
• Noeud de corde d'arc = Bow-rope knot = Tent knot (v. fig. 5)
• Noeud de chaise = Bowline knot
• Noeud de pendu = Hangman knot (v. fig. 3)
• Noeud plat = Square knot
• Noeud de tente = Tent knot
• Tours morts = Coils (v. fig. 1, noeud du haut)
• Velture = Cinch (v. fig. 1, noeuds des chevilles et des orteils)