Bondage

Shibari bondagte shoot with Raggydoll. Some very hard semi nawa torture bondage in this shoot. Beautiful captures by Clover Photography.

As I promised someone I'd make this tutorial here's one on joining rope for Shibari bondage. Hope you find this useful.

I had the distinct pleasure of providing the rope bondage for this video. Hope you enjoy as much as I did. The artist is the fabulous FKA Twigs. The song is Pendulum.

The rope I do is about people. Ever since people started asking me about rope and why I liked it this has been my defining answer. It says as clearly as I can that for merope is not about rope. It’s about it’s effect, it’s ability to communicate, it’s beauty. It’s about everything other than the rope itself.

Bondage can be anything where a person is bound, it’s an all encompassing term. As for Rope Bondage, Shibari and Kinbaku… Rope bondage is any bondage involving rope at all. Damsel in distress stuff. TKB right through to Shibari. Shibari just means tying. It doesn't even mean bondage tying specifically unless used in the context of bondage. Any Japanese style tying might be Shibari.

Ariel is a real pleasure to work with and to tie. As a model I can't recommend her highly enough. She's a wonderful person. You should check out this gallery and her modeling work and RestrainedElegance.com for some great bondage work of a completely different style to mine. These are mostly a study in 菱縄縛り (diamond rope tie)

Kali bound, innocent in white lace, corrupted in rope. Shibari bondage shoot from 2011

This is the 'sleepy' tie*. Great fun with someone who's face down. I created this tie to work without having to pass the rope under the person at any point so it could be tied without problems on someone lying down. Hope you have fun with this.

Here's part one of our shoot with Gorgone. We had a really awesome shoot and got some amazing images. There's more to come so keep checking back for the second part of this and some more really great bondage shoots.