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Nicky Knot
The Nicky knot is a way of tying a necktie. It is a self-releasing version of the Pratt knot. Like the Pratt knot, it is tied inside-out. It originated in Milan, Italy and may have been named after Nikita Khrushchev after he visited the city. The knot is larger than the Four-in-hand knot and smaller than the Half-Windsor knot. Using the notation of ''The 85 Ways to Tie a Tie'', the Nicky knot is tied * Lo Ci Ro Li Co T (knot 4). File:Tie diagram inside-out start.svg File:Tie diagram inside-out l-c-r i-o.svg File:Tie diagram inside-out r-l.svg File:Tie diagram inside-out l-c-end.svg See also * Pratt knot—a non-self-releasing variant * List of knots This list of knots includes many alternative names for common knots and lashings. Knot names have evolved over time, and there are many conflicting or confusing naming issues. The overhand knot, for example, is also known as the thumb knot. The ... References {{Necktie knots Necktie knots ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pratt Knot
The Pratt knot is a method of tying a necktie. It is also known as the Shelby knot. The knot was created in the late 1950s by Jerry Pratt, an employee of the US Chamber of Commerce. It was popularized as the Shelby knot after then 92-year-old Pratt taught it in 1986 to television reporter Don Shelby, who he felt had been tying his tie poorly on the air. Shelby then refined the Pratt knot with local clothier Kingford Bavender and wore it on the air with a spread collar where it stood out and attracted attention for its symmetry and trim precision. The knot is a variation on the Nicky knot. Both the Pratt and Nicky knots are tied inside out, though only the Nicky knot is self-releasing. Before its popularization in a 1989 ''New York Times'' article, the knot was unknown within the fashion world and not recorded in the tie industry's standard reference guide of the time, ''Getting Knotted – 188 Knots for Necks'' by Davide Mosconi and Riccardo Villarosa in Milan, Italy. The Pratt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikita Khrushchev
Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev (– 11 September 1971) was the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964 and the Premier of the Soviet Union, Chairman of the Council of Ministers (premier) from 1958 to 1964. During his tenure, he stunned the communist world with his denunciation of his predecessor Joseph Stalin and embarked on a campaign of de-Stalinization with his key ally Anastas Mikoyan. Khrushchev sponsored the early Soviet space program and presided over various domestic reforms. After some false starts, and a Cuban Missile Crisis, narrowly avoided nuclear war over Cuba, he conducted successful negotiations with the United States to reduce Cold War tensions. In 1964, the Kremlin circle Nikita Khrushchev#Removal, stripped him of power, replacing him with Leonid Brezhnev as the First Secretary and Alexei Kosygin as the Premier. Khrushchev was born in a village in western Russia. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Four-in-hand Knot
The four-in-hand knot is a method of tying a necktie. Also sometimes known (in UK) as a Bucket Knot, due to the shape of the finished knot. Some reports state that carriage drivers tied their reins with a four-in-hand knot, while others claim that the carriage drivers wore their scarves in the manner of a four-in-hand, but the most likely etymology is that members of the Four-in-Hand Club in London began to wear the neckwear, making it fashionable. The knot produced by this method is on the narrow side, notably asymmetric. For United States Army Uniforms of the United States Army, uniforms, and United States Navy Uniforms of the United States Navy, uniforms that include a necktie, the four-in-hand knot is one of three prescribed options for tying the necktie, the other two being the Half-Windsor knot, half-Windsor and Windsor knot, Windsor. Tying The four-in-hand knot is tied by placing the tie around the neck and crossing the broad end of the tie in front of the narrow end. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Half-Windsor Knot
The half-Windsor knot, also known as the single Windsor knot, is a way of tying a necktie which produces a neat, triangular knot. It is larger than the four-in-hand knot and Pratt knot, but smaller than the Windsor knot. The half-Windsor is derived from the Windsor in that it is only brought up around the loop on one side rather than both. It works well with light- and medium-weight fabrics. See also *Windsor knot – a substantially bulkier knot *Four-in-hand knot *List of knots This list of knots includes many alternative names for common knots and lashings. Knot names have evolved over time, and there are many conflicting or confusing naming issues. The overhand knot, for example, is also known as the thumb knot. The ... References External links Necktie knots {{knot-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The 85 Ways To Tie A Tie
''The 85 Ways to Tie a Tie'' is a book by Thomas Fink and Yong Mao about the history of the knotted neckcloth, the modern necktie, and how to tie each. It is based on two mathematics papers published by the authors in ''Nature'' and '' Physica A'' while they were research fellows at Cambridge University’s Cavendish Laboratory. The authors prove that, assuming both the tie and the wearer to be of typical size, there are exactly 85 ways of tying a necktie using the conventional method of wrapping the wide end of the tie around the narrow end. They describe each and highlight those that they determine to be historically notable or aesthetically pleasing. It was published by Fourth Estate on November 4, 1999, and subsequently published in nine other languages. The mathematics The discovery of all possible ways to tie a tie depends on a mathematical formulation of the act of tying a tie. In their papers (which are technical) and book (which is for a lay audience, apart fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Knots
This list of knots includes many alternative names for common knots and lashings. Knot names have evolved over time, and there are many conflicting or confusing naming issues. The overhand knot, for example, is also known as the thumb knot. The figure-eight knot is also known as the Savoy knot or the Flemish knot. A * Aberdeen knot - preferred for closure of intradermal sutures * Adjustable bend – can be easily lengthened or shortened * Adjustable grip hitch – a simple hitch which may easily be shifted up and down the rope while slack * Albright special – used to tie two different diameters of line together, for instance to tie monofilament to braid *Alpine butterfly (also known as a butterfly loop) – a static loop mostly used by mountain climbers and rappellers for securing a carabiner to static rope * Alternate ring hitching – covering a ring in hitching can prevent damage * Anchor bend – attaching a rope to a ring or similar termination * Angler's loop – ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
