The Art To Tie A Tie

The "Four in hand" is the most well known and commonly worn knot in the western world. The "Four-in-hand" knot has its name from the drivers of the four-in-hand carriage in the mid-1800's, who tied their scarves and the reigns of their carriage with this knot. It is a small knot with a distinctive elongated, asymmetric shape. The video is to be viewed as if you were looking in a mirror. -

The "Pratt" is related to the "Nicky" and provides an excellent compact, medium sized symmetric knot. The "Pratt" is a very practical knot which can be used with most any tie. As you can see, the tie is inverted (the seam shows) as you start. This saves us one loop. The video is to be viewed as if you were looking in a mirror. -

The "Half-Windsor" is one of the most well known knots in the world. This handsome knot is one of the original four classic tie knots. It is a symmetric, medium-sized knot with the figure of a perfect triangle. It can be worn with collars of most sizes and spreads. The name "Half-Windsor" is actually not derived from the larger "Windsor", and is not half the size of the Windsor, but rather three-quarters. The video is to be viewed as if you were looking in a mirror. -

The Windsor knot, also (wrongly) known as the "Double-Windsor" (a non-existing enormous 16-move knot), is the most well known knot in the world. The Windsor is a large, symmetrical, self-releasing triangular knot. The tie was named by Americans in the 1920-30's after the Duke of Windsor. The Duke was known for his fondness of large triangular tie knots, but didn't in fact invent this particular knot. His secret was a specially tailored tie with an extra thickness of material. There are four tie-versions that result in the "Windsor" knot; two self releasing, and two non-self releasing. This version filmed here is considered as the original (self releasing) version. The video is to be viewed as if you were looking in a mirror. -