How To Tie a Tie

General Discussion
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Note to all knot-tyers:

The subject line was the number 1 question of all questions recently submitted to the web, as reported by Yahoo.com, for an answer. How to tie a tie!!! It beat how to write a resume, how to dance, how to kiss, how to flirt, lose weight and how to write a book - can you believe this!!! Tying a tie - amazing - we have a lot of work to do!! :o

SquareRigger

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UUUUUHHHHhhhhhhh - - - What’s a tie???

(A retired persons joke! ;D)

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Let us answer the question as asked. Look at ABOK pg 383 and 384, as well as several back issues of Knotting Matters and Knot News. I will try to post the back issue numbers of KN and KM as I do not have them at hand but remember several fine articles that expanded ABOK neck ties. Not to say that I am expert: I’ve not worn a formal tie in 30 years… but still it is an enchanting study. When I had to wear one I made my own ties from silk and other fine cloth, hand stitched, but I often wondered how it came to be the standard instead of an exception. I understand the desire for a loose cloth about your neck. Catches the sweat, can be worn as a dust mask, can mop your brow.. haven’t been without one in 30 years… but how the fashion of the neck tie came from the comfort of the neckerchief… I yield to others for that response.

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I wanted to add this to the post instead of editing my earlier post. If you want to cut it out whole.. you can do so. I hope you find it funny. My Dad could tie every common neck tie knot. Bow ties, four in hand, Windsor… you need it and Dad could tie it. I learned them all at his “knee” (as it were). The “hook” was that he had me lie down on my back and relax. He was a marvel. He could tie them all and very fast. Then I had to understand that he had learned them all at his job in the undertakers back room. You may underatand why I often don’t want a formal tie?

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Thanks Roy,
This story is worth a lot.

Willeke

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Gudday Folks
Interesting book " The 85 Ways to Tie a Tie"
by Fink and Yong Mao
ISBN 1-84115-249-8
Pub. Fourth Estate Ltd.
Price was about 10 pounds stirling a few years ago
Have not tried any of them— "So many Knots etc.

Bowline