A tie has three main parts: the blade, or front; the neck; and the tail, or back. To start, the
material – Silkworm uses mainly heavy silks, woven or screen-printed – is unrolled and
checked for flaws. In 80cm by 70cm blocks, generally in piles of 20 or so,...
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A tie has three main parts: the blade, or front; the neck; and the tail, or back. To start, the
material – Silkworm uses mainly heavy silks, woven or screen-printed – is unrolled and
checked for flaws. In 80cm by 70cm blocks, generally in piles of 20 or so, it then goes to the
cutter, who lays out the cardboard patterns as economically as possible and, using an
extremely sharp knife, cuts the silk cleanly on the bias (at a 45-degree angle to the threads).
Each block will make two silk ties; it could, at another manufacturer's, make four, but not
without cutting off the bias, and a tie cut off the bias, will not hang as well or recover its
shape as quickly. The cutter also cuts out a small piece of waste cloth for the loop – the
"keeper" attached to the back of the blade through which you can, if you know nothing about
how a silk tie should be worn, tuck the tail.
Both blade and tail are then "tipped". The only part of the whole process done by machine,
this involves sewing a partial li
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