KNOT: learn how to make them

FOREWORD

The tie as we know it today has its origins in the second half of the 17th century in France, thanks to Croatian mercenaries, they in their traditional costumes used a white cloth called HRVATSKA, which was knotted in the shape of a rose and its Limbs dangled on their breasts. The French liked this HRVATSKA very much and they started using it daily calling it cravate.

Later at the end of the same century the French began to gently tie this tie around their necks using clasps.

During the French Revolution, the tie became a symbol of status and political power, where the revolutionary wore black ties while the counterrevolutionaries wore white.

In Napoleon's time he always wore a black tie with white edges, until on the morning of June 18, 1815 he decided to change his tie, losing that day the Battle of Waterloo. From this moment on, the art of knotting a piece of cloth around the neck has become an