Rope care:

To keep your ropes in good shape and condition and to use them hygienically again and again, we've included a few notes: Of course it is up to you to estimate when you think it is necessary.

1. First you can probably do with just cleaning the ropes with a cloth with hot water. Take the wet cloth in hand and pull the ropes through.

2. When the ropes have been used more often the hemp or jute rope can be washed in the washing machine or the dishwasher. Use a pillow bag or different type of washing bag when you put it in the washingmachine. Loop the rope in loops of ±40 cm (=16 inches) and tie it together on 1 point.

3. When the ropes are washed and thus wet, it probably is completely twisted. Untwist it until you have a normal looking straight rope again and hang it in as long as possible straight pieces to dry under tension. The ropes shrink in length when they become wet. To get the stretch out during the drying it is necessary to dry it under tension and stretched. To accomplish this you could hang it from the ceiling attached to another fixed point. NO HANGING WEIGHT (it stretches the rope further and further and that damages the twist). An alternative for the washing machine is boiling your ropes in a big pan with water. Do this for at least 2 hours. After that, follow the same procedure as above, for drying and stretching.

4. After your ropes have dried they can be fuzzy (and hard) of the fibers that came loose a bit. If it is no problem for you, just leave it at that and skip this step :) First roll the rope together, twist it, (attached to a fixed point), rub it together until it feels not that hard anymore. You can remove the fuzzies by burning them of over a flame on your stove. Pull the rope easily but steadily through the flame and pay attention that it doesn't burn too much. Should the rope be burnt too much cut the bad piece of and do not use it anymore. You're playing with fire and if the core of the rope is still burning, without you even noticing it, it can be dangerous of course. So be careful! The ropes can be damaged in such a way that you can't use them for safe bondage-practice anymore

5. When the burning succeeded you can wash off the worst burning traces with a wet cloth and treat the rope with some oil. I use ordinary baby oil, but you can use mink oil or bees wax too. Take a cloth and put a bit of oil on it. Take the cloth in hand and pull the rope through the oil in the cloth rubbing it in a bit. Repeat this in opposite direction.

6. Hang the rope to rest and after a day or two you can use your ropes again to satisfy your lust :)

Of course you're welcome to ask questions any time about the rope and the care for it. Mail Marrow via the emailform.