Rope/ Bondage Questions

[CuteHellion]

Hello, all!

 

I have a serious list of questions.

1. Where do I find good bondage rope for a beginner in shibari?

2. What is the difference between untreated and wet treated jute rope?

3. What's the difference between Japanese rope tying and Western rope tying?

4. Is there a good place to find beginner self-tying videos?

 

Basically, I'm new to bondage and I want to find a.. ~specialist~ in rope to teach me the ropes. Lol. Puns.

By specialist, I mean someone who has been tying bondage for years and has mass amounts of experience. Please someone help me.. :( <3 I'm a poor girl in need of a BIIIG learn.

 

Thank you for any and all help you give me v.v <3

[FETMOD-KF]

ok folks - I'm sure between us there's a lot of help we can give - buuuuuut - remember, no external links - so "you could look up x on youtube" or "buy this book" etc. is fine, but direct links is not.   Cheers :) 

[DominatrixSheba]

Try the 'self tie tuesday' group on fetlife.

[Deleted Member]

My advice regarding rope is not to buy from a sex or Kink shop and beware of so called bondage rope on amazon and ebay too. Rope services are good and their Hempex and 3 strand Nylon is nice. I prefer Hempex over Natural fibre as its more convenient for me. Check out Twisted Monk on You tube, Midori and two Knotty Boys too.

[Deleted Member]

without undermining this site, you could find all the classes and more 'specialist' on fets. not far from you, Charlotte got classes for beginners kinbaku and other techniques. 

[Mo****]

Check out TwoKnottyBoys or TKB on Youtube, also you might want to look up a site called rope360.  As for books, there's a good one called the Essence of Shibari.  There's some good artists who have IG pages and links to their tutorials in their bios; I like Boris Mosafir and Seb Kinbaku as well as WykD.

If you google any of those you should find a ton of good info.

I can also help with question 1: try to find a few packs of low priced nylon rope at your local hardware store.  It's good for practicing the basics and getting a feel for the techniques.  I don't recommend it for suspensions because it's a bit slippery and tend to slip.

Good luck and happy tying!

[Vulkan69]

Two knotty boys is more western than shibari, but are still really good and practical.
There's loads of videos on 'traditional' shabari on youtube - just be careful about TK/TE ties because done incorrectly can damage, especially on the bigger frames of non-asian bunnies.

Treated rope is ready to use. Untreated you'd have to treat which varies according to the type of rope fibre.

Western is often still beautiful but I find it more practical and easier to do. Shibari probably has 240000 years of tradition behind it. It's beautiful but I find it's more effort to achieve the same effect - although I am not really skilled at shibari in any form.

You can start with cotton rope from a DIY store - 4 or 6mm depending on your preference. 

I've found a popular custom crafts website has a lot of good rope on it.

 

[Deleted Member]

You might want to talk to Midori, she is an excellent teacher and extremely knowledgeable.  For rope you might want to talk to Twisted Monk he makes a variety of rope types, colors etc.

[Saph1968]

Fantastic answers ppl, I was about to ask almost exactly the same question, so lots of research is now going to follow, and a trip to B&Q :)

[ca****]

Maybe a discussion with https://www.fetish.com/p/morris159/     aka Morris159 on this site - might be a good starting point.

2 knotty boys - i enjoyed some of their videos
A guy called Mark Varley (on another Fet site) or Beautiful Bondage (dot net) website also does rope and videos

[Saph1968]

Yes, Morris’ rope work is amazing, as tbh are some of the others (The Magician is one), so I’ll chat to him/them next time I see them in chat, thanks for the reminder.