Bondage Hood - with locking collar and D-ring
I just finished a cool hood with a unique feature - a locking collar. I love the simple lines and severity of a nose-hole-only hood. It is just a classic, timeless fetish look. I used the basic hood pattern for this project that I have made available here on my Deviant Art page. 
I created a strap from the same leather I used for the hood, so the texture and color is a perfect match. I cut slots with the slot cutter for the hasp to fit through. 
You just need a willing slave and a small padlock, (or maybe not-so-small), and you're ready to go.
I shoot these pictures with the hood on a manequin head, but the real beauty of this piece will be once it's laced on to it's slave. The form of the facial features will show through, and eventually the leather will conform to the wearer's face more and more. It will just get better with age and use. 
I think hoods are great for their ability to really change your sensory perception and connection to outside reality. The head is the seat of the five senses, and hoods play with them all: sight, sound, touch, taste, smell... Well, I guess it's not easy to taste in there, but for all the rest - it can be an intense place to be.
It's the ultimate form of surrender, in gleaming black leather.
I just finished a cool hood with a unique feature - a locking collar. I love the simple lines and severity of a nose-hole-only hood. It is just a classic, timeless fetish look. I used the basic hood pattern for this project that I have made available here on my Deviant Art page. 
I created a strap from the same leather I used for the hood, so the texture and color is a perfect match. I cut slots with the slot cutter for the hasp to fit through. 
You just need a willing slave and a small padlock, (or maybe not-so-small), and you're ready to go.
I shoot these pictures with the hood on a manequin head, but the real beauty of this piece will be once it's laced on to it's slave. The form of the facial features will show through, and eventually the leather will conform to the wearer's face more and more. It will just get better with age and use. 
I think hoods are great for their ability to really change your sensory perception and connection to outside reality. The head is the seat of the five senses, and hoods play with them all: sight, sound, touch, taste, smell... Well, I guess it's not easy to taste in there, but for all the rest - it can be an intense place to be.
It's the ultimate form of surrender, in gleaming black leather.
WANTZ! I'm a huge fan of that full hood look too :) Also a huge fan of things that lock on ;)
ReplyDeletehow long would someone have to wear it for it to conform to their face? say, hypothetically, if they were wearing it 22 hours a day or so?
ReplyDelete;)
Dear Velicia, I agree - the ability to lock on a restraint takes it to a whole other level of intensity. Especially with a hood - not for panickers or the claustraphobic, that's for sure.
ReplyDeleteAnd Sammy, I don't know exactly how long it would take for the hood to conform to the face. It would depend on the tightness of the laces among other things. Won't it be fun to find out? =0)
You know, I can make one for you...
Hi Christopher - whats the best way to contact you for hood orders?
DeleteDear CK, not taking orders at the moment, but will announce here if and when I do...
DeleteYou know Christopher I have often wondered about such hoods - the seam always runs down the front of the face. Have you ever seen an example where the face part of the hood is cut from one piece of leather?
ReplyDeleteI am imagining it would be impossible to fashion..?
Dear Johannsen,
ReplyDeleteI haven't really seen a hood with the face made from a single piece of leather, probably because it would be hard to have a single piece of leather conform to the shape and countours of the face - particularly around the nose. With leather hoods you are trying to cover a complex 3-dimensional shape with an essentially flat material. It's a challenge.
There are a lot of strategies out there, including making the nose a separate piece, but I have found the center seam to be a fairly good compormise. Sewing the small nose piece to the center of the face piece is tricky at best, and you end up with a seam all around the nose anyway.
Ideally there would be no seams, and I have wanted to experiment with veg-tanned leather that could be formed on a mold. This would fit the face exactly and would require no seam. But, the trade-off with veg-tanned leather is it would not be supple and soft, like the leather I use in most of my projects.
Chris,
ReplyDeleteCan thin supple leather be vacu formed?
Dear SanderO,
ReplyDeleteI have experimented with vacuum-forming leather in the past using wheat paste, and it can be done, although the end result is rather stiff, like papier-mache. I have molded veg-tanned or tooling leather as well, but that is much heavier than the garment leather, and naturally stiffer. It looks more like the kind of thing Bob Bassett does with his molded leather items. The holy grail would be 3-dimensional molded leather that takes the shape you want, yet retains the supple softness. Any ideas?
Chris,
ReplyDeleteI don't know leather ... its properties on a technical level... just as someone who has various items made from it. But I DO know that the leather say... in gloves I buy which are very tight at first... loosen up and are no longer tight and "compressive" so I assume they leather is stretching... and the stretch is the result of repeated mechanical stress.
So, I would think that some supple leather could be "formed" using a rigid mold - glass or fiberglass... and a vacuum ... perhaps with some water or other chemical which might induce some letting go of the stiffness... again I don't know the technology.
But I would think that over time the vacuum would deform the skin to the mold and viola!... you've turned a planar material into a 3 dimensional curved one.
I would suspect the material strength WOULD be affected and that would depend on the amount of surface deformation. So for say... a prominent feature line a nose, one could expect some serious weakness at this location since the material would HAVE to be thinner in order to stretch.
But I think this IS doable. I can't think of any applications for the process other than leather anatomical seamless masks... But they could be quite stunning and feel great too. Re tightening could be done with elastic and or laces at the back.
What say you?
Hey where can I buy this from you?
ReplyDeleteDear ceo,
ReplyDeleteI am sorry, but I'm not taking any new orders for custom work at this time. I'll announce on this blog if I do begin taking orders again.