Chicago 2025 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 2025 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.
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.
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.
TheArtDungeonMN (formerly HCTMDesigns) features a make your own Flogger Station: handles+falls of all variety from rope, to bats, to legos, to sandpaper along with unique Crops, Nipple Clamps, Coloring Books, Enamel Pins, Bound Monster High Dolls, Leather Masks, and Pet play accessories. Come shop in person at Ropecraft Chicago or visit our store and event space in Newport, Minnesota.
Hand-made floggers made from either paracord, satin nylon, or rabbit fur! You get to choose what color combination you are wanting as well as the size and material it is made from!! Customizing your own flogger will match everything to your personal collection!
Total Power Xchange
Fine Custom Woodworking
Handmade BDSM & Kink lifestyle furniture and accessories. Wood you will love to worship.
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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