Shibari House Brasil
Rope maker and studio founded in Penha in January 2021 by Mariana Rodeso and Rigger Maia. It hand-makes jute and cotton shibari rope in a large colour range and produced an online beginners’ course.
Shibari House Brasil was founded in January 2021 in Penha, São Paulo, to gather safe and informative shibari teaching material in Portuguese at a time when most reliable content was in English or Japanese. It is run by Mariana Rodeso, the curating partner responsible for visual identity and the studio program, and Rigger Maia, the managing partner who makes the products and looks after customers. Its stated mission is to make shibari more accessible in Brazil, and its values put respect, ethics, political and social awareness and the free expression of diverse bodies at the center.
Rope and online teaching
The house makes asanawa-style rope by hand from natural jute, in a fixed range of 21 jute and seven mercerized cotton colors, and sells vegan waxes with essential oils, tenugui and furoshiki. In 2021 it released a complete online course for beginners with supporting study material. It has run workshops in São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Curitiba, and it advised on technique and supplied products for the 2023 Netflix series Olhar Indiscreto.
Estúdio Ifigênia
In November 2024 it opened Estúdio Ifigênia, a small studio in the historic center, visited by appointment, for the study of shibari and body practices, debates on politics and sexuality, performance, photography and safe practice meetings. Its resident artists are Léo (ForaIsso) and Leviriet. The late-2026 program included two weekly evening study groups led by Léo: Sobre Nós for beginners (frictions, tension and basic dynamics) and Teoria das Cordas for people who already tie (structures, dynamics and aesthetics). It also offered a weekly flexibility and body-development group and the Curso Integral, a certificate course from beginner level to suspension taught by Rigger Maia and Rodeso on three Saturdays a month. Cine Shibari is a monthly screening of rope performances and films followed by an hour of open dojo, and the studio also holds jams, introductory workshops, Figura e Forma life-drawing sessions and short Flash Rope photo sessions. In November 2026 a single study-group session cost R$100–150 and a screening R$35.