We are headed out to Chicago soon for Shibaricon, and in preparation for a class that we will be teaching on Chinese-style bondage, we have been shooting step-by-step sets for the tutorial handouts. Well, we ended up with so many variations, we decided the best way to display the information is on a website, hence the opening of our Chinese bondage tutorial www.chineseropeart.com. Take a look and let us know what you think – clear? interesting? any suggestions?
JW – thanks for the note. I’ll do more villianous appearances from time to time, including a sequel to the Dominatrix video. It’s just hard to plan ahead; if I wake up feeling fine and feeling bitchy, well, that will be the day 🙂
Most of the wanDeRers stuff is in the BTS section in the members area, I think.
OK, I missed that sentence about flat, ribbon-like binding material. Or maybe I saw it and it only registered subconsciously.
Yes, there are tons of tutorials on the web for doing other kinds of ties. The problem is that the various explainations of all those other ties seem to slip through my mental fingers, while your explaination of the Chinese Five Flowers tie actualy managed to stick. So either the Five Flowers tie is really easy to understand, or else you are really good at explaining things.
Thanks for the response Dianne. I thought you looked great in the Dominatrix video and would love to see you as the villain again, but understand your reasons. Any chance some wanDeRers photos will show up as substitute? My Harmony mags are long gone.
Regarding me (Dianne) modeling again – you have to remember, the wanDeRers days were 1993-1998. Like many of us, my body has “matured” since that time and although I feel a lot better now than I did about 5 years ago, the bod still plays nasty tricks on me ranging from severe eczema & rosacea to reduced flexibility to bursitis in my knee. The eczema alone plays a large part in me not appearing on camera frequently as the binder, although I do a lot of the tying – it’s a time-consuming pain in the neck to edit out the bad patches. I still enjoy both the tying and being tied, there just isn’t a lot of photo evidence these days and that probably isn’t going to change. Sorry guys!
Thank you all for the feedback.
A video tutorial or two are planned for the Chinese Rope Art site, along with many more advanced forms ideas. With ShibariCon starting next week, we just wanted to get the site up, but more is planned for it.
The use of flat ropes or ribbon is mentioned in the intro to the single stranded basic form section. The single stranded ties work well with flat rope, not so much if double stranded. When we get back from ShibariCon, we will put up some more examples in the creative variations section.
Yes, that is Dianne in the in some of the tutorials 🙂 She’ll comment separately on her reasons for no longer modeling.
At the moment, we do not have any specific plans to do tutorials on other ties for Imago Studios or the Bondage Warehouse, just updates to the Chinese Rope Art site. In part because the web is already loaded with tutorials on how to do just about every other tie-knot, we do not think there is anything new or interesting we could add. We did the five flowers tutorial because very little information on it existed, what there was tended to be in Chinese, and because we were teaching the class at ShibariCon. We may include a few brief how to’s or demos in the behind the scenes section, but first we would have to come up with something interesting enoungh to show! 🙂
Clear, yes.
Interesting, yes.
Thank you!
A couple of additional thoughts:
o This looks like it might work well with nylon webbing or “flat” ropes.
o I’d like to see the clarity of of these tutorials applied to other types of ties. Maybe it’s the conceptual simplicity of this tie that makes it easy for me to “get,” but I’d like to think that it’s your excellent explainations.
After my girlfriend and I got ropes that were long enough we tested the basic forms (single & double stranded) plus example 1 and 2 of the advanced forms of the ties.
Everything worked fine with the help of the tutorials!
Many thanks for this great and USEFUL site! 🙂
Great new “bondage how to” shibari tutorial site – THANKS!
JW wrote: “Maybe there could be a model revenge set?”
I think that’s unlikely. There’s a BTS-Video with Ginger, where Ray says, that it’s indeed a fantasy of every model to take revenge on them, but he ultimately makes it clear, that this fantasy won’t come true. 😉
@ Chinese Rope Art: Additional video tutorials wouldn’t be bad. Either they could appear in the warehouse or in the BTS-section of Imagostudios.
Fantastic site! Everything explained very well! 🙂
I think I’m going to try out all of the variations with my girlfriend this weekend! But have to go to the hardware store first. I fear, I don’t have enough rope at home.
A suggestion for the future could be video tutorial available in the warehouse.
Looks great and very easy to follow. Would that be Dianne posing for example 1 on both Basic Form sets? Would love to see her back in front of the camera. I started with you folks back in Harmony days. Maybe there could be a model revenge set?
This tutorial is very, very useful. Thanks.