Björn Lindström @bkhl@mastodon.sdf.org

There hasn't been any #necktie posts for a while since I've been working from home, but today I'm visiting a customer while wearing this Zebra pattern tie with a Siam #knot. The tie is a souvenir from Johannesburg.

This one doesn't see much use otherwise as it doesn't match the colours of the day for the usual working days.

Brown paisley #necktie with what me and @veer66 decided the other week is called a Siam #knot.

Blue #necktie with Prince Albert #knot.

#tieday

A wool brown #tartan #necktie with a Prince Albert #knot.

Today, a yellow #necktie with a Diagonal #knot. The one that's a variation on a Kelvin, not the novelty knot, obviously.

This knot starts with the backside facing forward. For those knots I generally twist the tie behind my neck, so you can see that the back of the tie is facing outwards under my collar to the right here.

This way both ends end up with the front forward.

Trying the same unnamed #knot again today, with an "in-between" thickness silk #necktie.

Another day with that unnamed #knot that I've used the last couple of days, here with a wide and billowy #necktie.

I think I might have found a new go-to knot.

The same unnamed #knot as yesterday (26), but with a wider and slightly thicker #necktie.

The solid core of the knot sticks out through the opening in the back, making the opening the the wide end goes through smaller than it appears from the front. This is how it can be made to look loose while still retaining a dimple.

Today an unnamed #knot from The 85 Ways to Tie a Tie (number 26) which they judge unesthetic. It could be seen as an oriental on top of a Victoria.

It didn't really work with this #necktie, but since the core of the knot is already quite solid, you could make the final few moves very loose for a "large but casual" look. I might try that another day with a wider tie. With this one it looked a bit weird as it means there is no dimple at all.

Here's a #knot that The 85 Ways to Tie a Tie lists as an alternative variant of a Christensen, but here with the wide end end of the #necktie put through only one loop at the end.

I'm other words it it relates to that knot as Manhattan does to the "regular" Christensen.

Here is a #necktie knot I have seen named elsewhere as a "Persian", but in The 85 Ways to Tie a Tie is just listed as a variant of a Windsor.

The difference is that it reverses some moves in a way that at the end has a negligible (I'm almost prepared to day no effect) effect on the appearance. Probably lots of people use this #knot and has no idea it's not a "standard" Windsor.

While re-reading The 85 Ways to Tie a Tie, I worked out which of their unnamed knots correspond to knots I've seen described elsewhere.

It turns out that if you make their first Christensen #knot variant, but put the wide end through just one loop at the end, you get the #necktie knot that's I've seen listed as a "Manhattan" elsewhere.

In appearance I guess it is like a wider Victoria knot, in a similar way to how a Christensen could be seen as a wider alternative to Prince Albert.

Today I'm trying the _other_ #necktie #knot also called "Diagonal".

As expected, it is easier to make with a stiff fabric with some friction, but it still doesn't feel solid, and has a tendency to twist to the left (in relation to this picture), so I still doubt I'll use it very often.

Here's that variant of a Kelvin #necktie #knot with the wide end put through two loops at the end. It turns out after reading The 85 Ways to Tie a Tie, that this also has a name: "Diagonal".

Searching the web it seems though that the name has now been taken over by the novelty knot I tried here: https://mastodon.sdf.org/@bkhl/102918599821834593

I was a bit positive about that one that morning, but it didn't keep its shape well, so I didn't use it again.

I might try it sometime with a tie with more friction, though.

Today, a yellow elephant #necktie. I've been calling this a variant of a Victoria #knot.

However, this weekend I re-read The 85 Ways to Tie a Tie, and found that when you put the wide end through the last two loops at the end like this, it has a name, which is a "Prince Albert".

Today a blue #necktie with which I managed to make a Victoria #knot with the normal ending. A decent choice if you want an unpretentious knot in the style of a four-in-hand hand, but one of those would stand out as small for the tie you have.

Today, a brown #necktie with a Victoria #knot.

For a change I tried making the Victoria with the normal ending, passing the final fold through only one loop, but found that for a thin tie like this it was more difficult than the alternative ending, so went back to this.

Today, my green naga pattern #necktie with a Victoria #knot. I've not really had the drive to mix up my knots lately, so another break from these posts may be coming up.

However, today the photo turned out quite nice (for a phone photo), so here we are.

Today a pink #necktie with a Kelvin #knot. Made it less tight than I've done with these stiff ties before, which makes it a bit more pointy, but also more asymmetric.

Yellow elephant pattern #necktie today, with a Victoria #knot.