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Marling Hitches
by Rope Fashions
Marling Hitches are used on sail boats to fasten a furled sail
to a boom when it is not in use. They are a series of overhand
knots that spread the pressure along the length of the sail.
They are useful in rope bondage any time that you want to
fasten a limb to something, applying gentle pressure along
the length of the limb.
Here we are marling our captive's arms to the uprights of a
chair. You could use marling hitches to fasten your partner’s
arms to a porch railing, or her arms and legs to an X-cross.
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Step 1:
Marling Hitches do not hold well against pulls along the axis
of the limb (they just collapse), so they need to be backed up
with something that will resist axial pulling.
Here we use our standard wrist restraints. (See the Wrist and Ankle
Restraints tutorial for how to make these.) The wrist restraints
are tied to the back legs of the chair, just below the seat,
holding her hands in place.
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Step 2:
We start the marling hitches with a lark’s head around the wrist
and the upright of the chair.
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Step 3:
Now, instead of wrapping the rope in the opposite direction,
so it pulls against the loop, we continue in the same
direction and wrapping around the arm and the chair.
It looks better this way.
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Step 4:
Bring the rope around and cross it over itself.
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Step 5:
Now run the top rope under the bottom rope and up the arm, forming
an overhand knot.
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Step 6:
Make sure you cross the top rope over the bottom before going
under the bottom. If you don’t, you will have half-hitches,
rather than overhand knots, and it won’t hold in place as well.
To tell if you are doing it right, make a bunch of marling
hitches around a wooden pole, then pull out the pole. If you end up
with a series of knots, you did it right. If you end up with
just a piece of rope and no knots, you didn’t do it correctly.
Continue making overhand knots up the arm, making sure
that your tension is even, and not too tight.
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Step 7:
When you reach the underarm, and you cannot make any more
half-hitches, tie the end of the rope to the top of the chair
back.
Now do the same thing on the other side. This will give
her arms a nice, completely-confined feeling. And if she
is a struggler, it will make it a lot harder for her to
loosen the wrist restraints by pulling against them,
since she will have almost no arm mobility.
I hope you enjoy marling your partner as much as I do mine.
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