Complete Shibari, Volume 1: Land
Douglas Kent's 2010 illustrated guide to ground-based shibari, the first of the two Complete Shibari volumes from Mental Gears Publishing.
Complete Shibari Volume 1: Land is a book by Douglas Kent, published by Mental Gears Publishing in 2010 as the first of the two-volume Complete Shibari series. Hares & Hyenas gives March 1, 2010 as the publication date and gives the length as 96 pages. The bookseller lists the title as out of print since June 2017.
The publisher’s description defines shibari as a Japanese-inspired way of tying a partner that aims to restrain with elegance and beauty, and argues that thorough resources for learning it had been hard to come by. It presents the series as an accessible English-language guide. This first volume deals with ties made on the ground: it starts from a few basic building blocks and then combines them into a range of floor ties, with more than 450 step-by-step illustrations and photographs. The description also lists choosing and preparing rope, safety during a scene and the reasons behind each technique, and it insists that the book is not a knot manual.
The companion volume, Complete Shibari Volume 2: Sky, turns to suspension. This entry describes the book and does not reproduce its instructions.