>>11321920You can just push a piercing in through cloth if the hole is big enough, though the added friction would certainly chafe. It does give the impression that the cloth is going into the hole, if you poked a hole in the cloth at either side of the nipple that's smaller than the gauge of the bar I think you could get a similar effect. As it goes in it would pull the cloth into the hole as the material stretches, and then when it screws into the other side you could lock some material into the threads, pulling it tight.
Crazy chafing, but I think it's possible. Maybe a good idea for a photo shoot.