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A demonstration of tying a tie A half Windsor knot with a dimple An Atlantic knot, which is notable for being tied backwards. There are four main knots used to knot neckties. In rising order of difficulty, they are: the four-in-hand knot. The four-in-hand knot may be the most common. the Pratt knot (the Shelby knot) the half-Windsor knot
The Windsor knot, sometimes referred to as a full Windsor (or misleadingly as a double Windsor) to distinguish it from the half-Windsor, is a knot used to tie a necktie.As with other common necktie knots, the Windsor knot is triangular, and the wide end of the tie drapes in front of the narrow end.
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 from an appendix), the authors show that necktie knots are equivalent to persistent random walks on a triangular lattice, with some constraints on how the walks begin and end.
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The Pratt knot uses less length than the half-Windsor or Windsor knots, and so is well suited to shorter ties or taller men. Unlike the four-in-hand knot, the Pratt method produces a symmetrical knot. It is of medium thickness. Using notation from and according to The 85 Ways to Tie a Tie, the knot is tied Lo Ci Lo Ri Co T (knot 5).
A small knot. The small knot, also known as oriental knot, Kent knot, or simple knot, is the simplest method of tying a necktie. Unlike the Four-in-hand knot and Windsor knot, the small knot is not self-releasing. The small knot is tied inside out, though this can be mitigated by giving the tie a half-twist during the tying process.