Warsaw

The Warsaw scene

A long-standing public name in Polish rope is the Warsaw performer GanRaptor. His site presents him and his partner Slaanesh as pioneers of shibari in Poland since 2009, the year his rope shows began appearing at fetish and BDSM events. Together they built nawado.pl, an online manual of bondage and shibari techniques with galleries of photos and videos, and GanRaptor.pl, which sells video courses alongside rope; the shop describes its premium jute rope as imported from Japan and made in Poland. According to the same pages, GanRaptor has taught abroad, among other places at a dojo in Berlin and in Copenhagen, Tallinn and Moscow, has run workshops for psychologists, sexologists and therapists, and has designed rope staging for film and theatre productions, one of them at the Teatr Narodowy, Poland’s National Theatre.

The couple’s own archive also records early public events in the city. A nawado.pl post from February 2017 documents shibari workshops and a Kinbaku Lounge evening in Warsaw, held according to its title at the Instytut Pozytywnej Seksualności; its photos show a performance and a lesson on the takate kote. nawado.pl keeps a page for workshop announcements and also offers individual and closed-group sessions, while the video courses let people learn at home, an approach discussed in Learning shibari online.

Studios

Two rope studios are listed for the city. Wisimi Studio publishes its studio rules and its rope order forms in both Polish and English and sells handmade rope from a 2026 catalogue. Its link page announces open days for Liny Sensualne (“sensual ropes”), a practice led by Arkadiusz Hezler. Yanari Studio presents itself on the Krajownik event platform as a place for shibari, kinbaku and Japanese rope art in the heart of Warsaw; its organizer page there showed 38 events in late 2026.

What the city offers now

Routes into rope found for this page include the studios’ events and rope jams listed on this page, workshops that nawado.pl offers on request when a group forms, and GanRaptor’s video courses. Wisimi’s rules and order forms come in Polish and English, while GanRaptor.pl and nawado.pl are in Polish. The wider story of how Japanese rope spread through Europe is told in Kinbaku in Europe, and Finding people to tie with covers what to do if you arrive without a partner.