On the Web

Knots on the Web   (on knots) Best knot page round. Peter Suber's web page design is also noteworthy.

Necktie Knots   (on tie knots) Part of Peter Suber's Knots on the Web.

Tie Yourself in Knots   (on ties) Many links.

Knot Plot   (on knots) Lots of knot pictures.

Knots

Clifford W. Ashley, The Ashley Book of Knots (Faber and Faber, London, 1944. Reissued by Doubleday, New York?, 1993.

Colin C. Adams, The Knot Book: An Elementary Introduction to the Mathematical Theory of Knots (Freeman and Co., New York, 1994). ?

Charles Livingston, Knot Theory (Mathematical Association of America, Washington, 1993).

Tie Knots

Anonymous, Neckclothitania; or, Tietania (J. J. Stockdale, London, 1818).

H. Le Blanc, The Art of Tying Cravats (Effingham Wilson, London, 1828).

Thomas M. A. Fink and Yong Mao, `Designing Tie Knots Using Random Walks', Nature, 398, 31 (1999).

Thomas M. A. Fink and Yong Mao, `A Mathematical Theory of Tie Knots', Physica A, in press (1999).

Davide Mosconi and Riccardo Villarosa, Getting Knotted (Ratti, Milan, 1985). Republished as The Book of Ties (Tie Rack, London, 1985).

Ties

Francois Chaille, The Book of Ties (Flammarion, Paris, 1996).

Doriece Colle, Collars, Stocks, Cravats (Rodale Press, Emmaus, PA, 1972).

Roseann Ettinger, 20th Century Neckties (Schiffer Publishing, Atglen, PA, 1998).

Sarah Gibbings, The Tie (Studio Editions, London, 1990).

Avril Hart, Ties (Victoria & Albert Museum, London, 1998).

A. Varron, `Neckties', Ciba Review, 38, 1361 (1941).

Men's Dress

Hardy Amies, The Englishman's Suit (Quartet, London, 1994).

A Cavalry Officer, The Whole Art of Dress (Effingham Wilson, London, 1830).

Farid Chenoune, A History of Men's Fashion, (Flammarion, New York, 1993).

C. Willet Cunnington and Phillis Cunnington, Handbook of English Costume in the 19th Century (Faber and Faber, London, 1959).

Alan Flusser, Clothes and the Man (Villard, New York, 1988). Extract on ties.

Clare Jerrold, The Beaux and the Dandies (Stanley Paul & Co., London, 1910).

James Laver, Dandies (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1968).

The `Major' of To-Day, Clothes and the Man (Grant Richards, London, 1900).

Alan Mansfield and Phillis Cunnington, Handbook of English Costume in the 20th Century, 1900-1950 (Faber and Faber, London, 1973).

Aileen Ribeiro and Valerie Cumming, The Visual History of Costume, (Batsford Ltd, London, 1989).

O. E. Schoeffler and W. Gale, Esquire's Encyclopedia of 20th Century Men's Fashion (McGraw-Hill, New York, 1973).

The Duke of Windsor, A Family Album (Cassell, London, 1960).



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