If you have seen the latest gallery of Nina’s web cam rope session with MaYa, you might have noticed our new toys, some industrial sized wooden pegs. If Crocodile Dundee pulled out some pegs saying “Now these are pegs!”, these are the sort of things you’d expect him to brandish at you. Pah! Clothes pegs …
What a week! Getting on for 40 reels of rope shipped this week so far. That’s 8km or 5 miles in real money! Jade Rope seem to be doing tremendous business through their worldwide network of suppliers since they accounted for a large part of the order. The rest was mainly accounted for by regular …
I have just uploaded a series of new galleries to the New Members Area. These include more photos from Ropefest in St Petersburg by Martin, including Kinoko’s show, and a set by AmplifiedPulse from August’s BOUND. Nina did another web cam with MaYa last night and there’s a blow by blow series of 137 shots …
As I have hinted previously, I’ve been becoming less and less interested in performing. It was touch and go whether I performed at last year’s Festival and, as you probably know, I decided not to do so this year. I’ve been wondering for some while now whether to give up performing altogether, hesitating to make any …
There’s some good news and some bad. As I think I mentioned, Kalahari cannot make it this year and I just heard that Dragonrope/Umino is unable to extricate himself from his work commitments. I noticed that Bob Ropemarks, a veteran of shibari from the Netherlands, is coming over for the Naka Akira course so I …
Don’t hang about if you are thinking of coming to LFAJRB as tickets are selling fast. We have another fantastic line up including the legendary Naka Akira, Osaka mistress Saki Kamijoo, plus the cream of the west’s shibari artists. Japan’s top kinbaku photographer, Sugiura Norio, will be our guest of honour. This will be our fifth and …
In the latest delivery was an experimental batch of 10,000m of rope made from some pre-waxed double twisted yarn. The idea was to create a rope that came pre-treated and wouldn’t need any treatment. It didn’t turn out exactly that way though. Initially, the rope feels extremely crisp and even makes a lovely creaking crunchy …