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Stella Spei

Stella Spei is a French rigger.

Era: 2010s

RIGGER · PERFORMER

French shibari / kinbaku rigger, performer, model, teacher and organizer behind Stell'Art Ropes. Her official bio frames her work around semenawa, emotional intensity, self-bondage, rigger performance, rope fashion / structures and nude-art photography. She has taught initiations and beginner / intermediate shibari since 2018, became president of ASKA in 2019 and organizes Rope Camp, described in her bio as an annual rope gathering for practitioners from France, Belgium, Italy and Spain.

School: Independent

Influences (mutual or directional): Nicolas Yoroi, Andrea Ropes, Docvale, Esinem, Tamandua.

Bakushi Map BETA

An interactive genealogy of bakushi and kinbaku — the Japanese rope traditions that grew from Edo-period hojōjutsu through twentieth-century SM magazines into today's global shibari scene.

People: 331
Entities: 251
Connections: 1468
Eras: 9

Each record is sourced from public material — Nawapedia, ShibariStudy, festival rosters, interviews, archived studio pages — and curated by a single researcher.

Beta — structure and interface are public; data is still being expanded and corrected.

How to read it

Vertical position is time: the 1800s at the top, the 2020s at the bottom. Cards are coloured by school or lineage; lines between them carry the relationship type:

deshi — direct apprenticeship
influence — peer study, mentorship
thinner colours — venue, magazine, production
card colour = school / lineage

Click a card to open its bio, antecedents and descendants. Filters in the top bar narrow by era, entity type, or relationship.

Caveats

Inclusion is selective: a person or studio appears only when there's enough public evidence to anchor them meaningfully. Missing birth years are deliberate — many practitioners don't publicise them. Errors and gaps will exist; corrections welcome at pussynawa@proton.me.

Methodology Sources

Thanks to RopeMarks, Asiana, RomKnots, Nick Freerider, Aleksei Kalatsky, Federico Kirigami, bluefeathers

Bakushi Map by Vsevolod Moreuton · · facts CC0 · text CC BY-SA · pussynawa@proton.me