Collected here are examples of various connection methods using rope and fabric-formed, grout-filled, "pillow" connectors. The combination of pliability and strength given by these materials provides potential methods of connecting "anything to anything" where the difficulties of mating tricky surface geometries to one another are automatically resolved by the soft adaptations of the materials themselves.
Many of these examples rely on a method of tensioning or clamping using nothing more than a rope and a stick -- the Thai-Tie. Other grout bag connections follow:
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