Chicago 2026 Vendors
Please click on the links below to visit our vendors, vending sponsor and other supporters before, during, and after our event.
Ropecraft Chicago 2025 Vending Sponsor
We strive to provide the top quality, reliable and professional shibari ropes for players around the world.
Ropecraft Chicago 2026 Event Vendors
Chromaknotz makes 100% hand dyed nylon. We carry 48 colors, 10 of those colors are UV reactive. Our rope comes in three different sizes 15′ twin packs, 30′ hanks and 60′ hanks. If you need rope books we have them for beginners up to advanced.
Dark Garden offers a selection of handmade RTW corsets as well as taking orders for personalized and bespoke work. We take pleasure & pride in being able to fit walk-in clients of just about any age, size, proportion, & identity. Our standard fit line, available in sizes 16-50”, feels like no other, because it’s developed from the thousands of bespoke pieces we’ve created since 1989. Personalizations, leather accessories, and custom designs are also offered. Try for yourself the corset that feels as good as it looks!
We carry a wide variety of products, with a special emphasis on Violet Wands and other electro-fetish items. But we also deal in a wide variety of leather, wood, and vegan impact across a full spectrum of price points for the discerning shopper. Internally, we often say that education is our fetish so we happily carry BDSM nonfiction books on as many topics as we can lay our hands on, even the more rare ones! We’re a woman-owned, intergenerational family business and we pride ourselves on over two decades of curating collections of fine BDSM & fetish toys with an eye towards community care and development.
Graydancer continues his love of kink-by-hand through making and crafting notebooks, handlettering, calligraphy, zines, and unique pieces of art using collage and other multimedia materials.
My Nawashi makes jute rope, reinforced jute rope, and jute rope accessories. We are committed to making quality natural fiber rope affordable and accessible to everyone.
Nadia Vanilla creates artwork about people doing fun things with their bodies. They love to create custom work about YOU as well as deeply personal reflections of life doing rope and kink.
The History of every major Galactic Civilization tends to pass through three distinct and recognizable phases, those of Survival, Inquiry, and Sophistication, otherwise known as the How, Why, and Where phases. For instance, the first phase is characterized by the question ‘How can we tie?’ the second by the question ‘Why do we tie?’ and the third by the question ‘Where shall we find a rope to tie with?’
Phoenix 42 Creations may not be the actual answer to life, the universe, and everything, but it is the only place to find handmade and finished jute rope in the Southwest. We offer a wide range of specifications, colors, and custom options so that you can tie with exactly what works best for you (and looks best on those pictures you’ll be posting on FetLife and Instagram.) We also put some serious time and effort into crafting some of the finest hardwood paddles you’ll come across, with a unique design that you won’t find anywhere else.
“Playful Curiosities is a Twin Cities based creator of kink related toys, clothing, and accessories, with a passion for constantly inventing all sorts of things that are silly, nostalgic, and geeky. From d20 themed toys to goofy stickers and shirts, eraser paddles to UV reactive canes, and billiard thumpers to beautiful resin and wood creations, you are bound to discover something that makes you smile or speaks to your inner child.
Come check us out and level up your loot—our gear’s got more charm than a bard at a bondage ball!”
Additional Sponsorship & Support comes from:
Tethered Together Event
Tethered Together is Ozma’s other baby. Join Ozma and Skyla for their springtime East Coast event focused on rope bondage with additional programming in circus arts, kink, relationships, and body movement including dance and yoga. Along with educational workshops, Tethered Together hosts an assortment of quirky, magical, and fun attendee-led programming, art installations, and entertainment. A fully equipped sex-positive dungeon is provided on Friday, Saturday & Sunday nights. Stay tuned for 2026 information and keep that last weekend of February/first weekend in March free on your calendars!
Graydancer’s Podcast
Graydancer’s Podcast – The longest-running kinky sex podcaster on the web! Graydancer started in 2005 with “the Ropecast” focusing on shibari, kinbaku, and fetish performance and art. Now he’s expanding to “Kink, Sex, and Culture”: consent issues, gender dynamics, power exchange, and all the myriad wonder of human sexuality. Alternative Relationships, Sexuality, Fetish, Performance, Rope bondage, Kink, BDSM, and more! There will be a steady stream of guest appearances by popular sexual performers, activists, and educators from around the globe. With a friendly, conversational style and the occasional bad pun Graydancer’s Podcast is a great way to engage in talking about adult sex education and the political and social climate surrounding consenting adults doing what they like to do.
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