There’s an informative article about the preparation of Okinawa jute rope by Steamybedtime on their site which they wrote about after receiving some from ESINEM-Rope. It has an illustrated guide showing their first, and seemingly very successful, experiment in treating rope, plus links to my free video tutorial and a couple of other guides. There’s …
As you will know from an earlier post, I have been exploring ways of achieving deeper connection in shibari with Frank aka Bandit650, a tango teacher, and two students. Very recently, I was approached by another tango fanatic, Semreh, who lived in Argentina for 6 years immersed at a pro and grass-roots level. We had …
Recently, there has been quite a bit about Japanese rope bondage in the media. The good news is that Japanese rope bondage is being positive portrayed positively and as a performance art. For far too long, the media treated BDSM as a freak-show and rarely taking the trouble to discover why people enjoyed seemingly bizarre …
You might be forgiven for thinking the header image is Shredded Wheat (an English breakfast cereal) but we are actually getting close-up with rope. This is some of the latest batch of my Amanawa Linen Hemp photographed through a digital microscope at x 1,000 magnification! OK, I admit for most purposes getting this up close …