Adapts well to the American collars held down by two small buttons. The knot owes its particular consistency to the thickness of the tie’s lining.  This, tied normally, is derived from the Kippers’ tie from which it is differentiated however, as being thicker.

Pyxis made from ivoire in the 5th century. The Nativity is presented there. This is reposited in the treasure chamber of the basilica St.Ludger in Essen-Werden in Germany.

Pearl decorations on a feminine bag, probably the workmanship of Nez Percè, from the 1980s.  The figure portrays a butterfly, the triangle centre motif: the cocoon.  The metamorphoses were a widely recognisable phenomenon in all of North America, and were symbolically associated with renovation and regeneration. Around 1860, non-linear decorations …

Verso il 1860 le decorazioni non lineari erano molto diffuse. Disegni floreali astratti, ma ricchi di colore e simmetrici venivano eseguiti su un fondo di colore tenue. Il fondo era  ornato anch’esso di perline riunite in file che seguivano i contorni dei motivi curvilinei riempiendo gli spazi. Alla fine del …

For this cone-type knot, the tie must be rather short.  Its main characteristic is that of a short leg that sticks out at the knot’s upper entrance.