Piel y Cuerdas

Piel y Cuerdas, 2025-, is a community in the bakushi / kinbaku ecosystem.

2025-

Era: 2020s

Quito-based shibari education project operating publicly as Piel y Cuerdas. The restored official site presents Piel y Cuerdas as an educational space dedicated to teaching shibari in Quito, Ecuador, with in-person classes, safe-BDSM courses, Japanese rope workshops, consent / safety framing and a progressive curriculum around rope handling, tension, communication, body reading, basic structures and supervised practice. The founder page names Christian Carvajal as founder and frames the project as a serious educational space for shibari and sadomasochistic practice in Ecuador. Added as compact Ecuador community / education infrastructure only; Christian Carvajal, class participants, private workshop logistics and social-post history stay source context.