Christian Red
Full-time rigger from the Nottingham area who teaches rope and takedown workshops across the UK and Europe and wrote the free beginner safety guide Knot Without Risk.
Christian Red is a full-time rigger who works from the Nottingham area in the UK. The website says Christian runs rope events in the English Midlands and travels to teach, perform and make art. Christian describes a lifelong practice of learning from rope artists and collaboration with medical and mental health professionals, without following one particular school or style.
Teaching
Event listings from Pleasure Rebels say Christian has taught since 2012 and has been part of the kink community for around twenty years. The listings name Oxford Peer Rope, UKREX, String Fling, Rope Office Hours, Rope On!, Anatomie Studios, Athens Rope and Prague Shibari among recent teaching engagements; Christian’s site also names Tangled Rope Festival, Nottingham Rope and UK universities. Christian is a regular guest teacher for The Kinky Classroom, whose autumn 2026 online courses include an introduction to shibari and an intermediate follow-up. The listings credit Christian with more than a hundred rope video tutorials and frequent contributions to Shibari Study.
Christian describes an approach centred on shared exploration and making complex topics accessible.
Performance
Christian’s site lists performances at Prague Shibari Festival, Rope Showcase in Edinburgh, Cirque de Chaos, Birmingham Play Munch and SWAMP.
Knot Without Risk
In 2025 Christian published Knot Without Risk, a free beginner’s guide to rope risks and their management. Illustrator Cherry Blossom and medical consultants DY and Yokai collaborated with Christian on the guide. The original is in English, and the guide’s page credits volunteer translations into Croatian, Spanish, Macedonian, Hungarian, Polish and German.