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Australia - A New Limited Edition From Le Noeud Papillon

I had always wanted to do an Australian native flora and fauna silk and I gave some rough sketchings (I am really not a natural illustrator) to my graphic designer Adnan and after almost six months I got back the next design we have run together and I am excited by it. When I go about designing a scarf these days I am looking not for what happens in the four corners. I am looking instead for the movement and detail in the middle of the square and the reason on a 90 x 90 that that's important is that when you fold and tie the scarf, these are the bits that mostly show. Especially the way I tie it myself. Which is something that has been somewhat frustrating with other brands, because they seem to keep the details too close to the border.

October 16, 2019 — Nicholas Atgemis

The New Limited Edition Box Had Arrived

The new limited edition box matches the colour of our Sydney Studio. We are offering a code to our newsletter readers this morning to let them have some of the first batch of boxes that have arrived. They are fantastic set the bow ties off so nicely with our foil sealed instruction cards.

October 11, 2019 — Nicholas Atgemis

Another Happy Wedding Customer

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LNP, thank you so much for the personal bow tie for the wedding! I got so many compliments and it was exactly what I was looking for. Amazing craftsmanship! @lenoeudpapillon is truly the best!

S. Army,
NY NY, USA

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October 6, 2019 — Nicholas Atgemis

What Are The Best Tailoring Scissors In The World - Potentially They Are Kai 7300 Series

In the Sydney Studio where I cut my silks I generally stick to rotary blades. The best rotary cutter in the world, in my opinion, is the well balanced and weighty Gingher rotary cutter - but I ordinarily switch out the Gingher blades for the titanium Fiskars blades which, depending on where you can source them, are a more economical and sharper blade (though the gingher looks more sexy). The other thing is I am left handed, and Gingher, which is made in Italy, is the only company that offers a left handed rotary cutter.

But when I am not using my rotary blade to cut silks, I am using my tailoring scissors to either cut fabrics or else to cut the patterns in the workroom that don't suit a rotary blade. For example, aspects of cutting ties, cutting rolls of fabrics and cutting the curved shapes of silk eye shades, require scissors. Over the years I have tried many varieties of scissors. There were the Schneider (German word for tailor) scissors from Zwilling, titanium ones from Fiskars (which are excellent), the classic red-handled ones from Mundial you find at fabric wholesalers and then, finally, the more upmarket Kai scissors with Japanese blades..

October 6, 2019 — Nicholas Atgemis

Private Label - Are You A Tailor Wanting To See Your Tuxedo Look Its Best?

It's sad when you see a tailor do an amazing piece of work and post it up to his Instagram wall with the customer wearing a very ordinary silk bow tie, the worst being the pre-tied ones. We have been making private label bow ties for very reputable tailors for many years, both in Australia and overseas. If you are interested in us making bow ties for your tailoring or retail business, Whatsapp us +61413140994 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

October 3, 2019 — Nicholas Atgemis

Make A Booking At The Studio And We Can Cut It In Front Of You

There is a feeling of joy that those that visit the Studio in Sydney get that surpasses the web experience. You get to see and touch with the naked eye. And we will the Studio with art and knick knacks and prototypes. I try to replicate that experience on our Instagram stories but nothing really matched what I call hand-to-hand combat - the getting to know someone in person experience. For those of you in Sydney who have the time in your schedule to swing past, Whatsapp me on +61413140994 to arrange a time.

September 30, 2019 — Nicholas Atgemis

Working On Animal Line Drawing Silk Jacquards

The perfect place to start on a new silk design is by looking at nature, both flora and fauna. The Japanese, who inspire me most, seem to be able to capture the best lines to show fluidity and detail, just enough, never too much. Recently I have been looking at animal designs again and I went back to some photographs that Sydney wildlife photographer Margaret Weiss suggested I use as reference for a second design using her photographs. The photos are stunning. Eagles in flight. Whether I manage to turn it into something beautiful remains to be seen.

September 30, 2019 — Nicholas Atgemis

In Praise Of The Ruffled Dinner Shirt

I prematurely posted this image of Andy the other night that was his ensemble for a trip to Las Vegas. He's channelling the 70's with a ruffled bib shirt he designed with the wonderful artisan shirt makers at @buddshirtmakers of which we once interviewed their cutter @cutteratbudd James for our own blog. The wide beige shawl lapel works so well with the shirt and his eye for good tailoring and proportions means his look, though referencing 70s black tie, is still so fresh even in 2019. And you can see said ensemble at the @bellagio by following through to @styleafter50 .

September 30, 2019 — Nicholas Atgemis

Wedding Bow Ties - Bespoke Creations So You Are Set Apart On Your Day

This is Astin and Matt. When they came to the Sydney Studio they requested that we find them something for their traditional black tie suits that would set them apart both from the guests and from each other. Astin chose a black satin silk with a red rose and gold leaf detail whilst Matt chose one of my favourite black tie silks of the year, a black satin silk ground with gold lurex detail that appears almost as gold leaf. Their suits, from Patrick Johnson, were well proportioned and able to carry the bow tie. If you need custom work, reach out on +61413140994 24/7 and congratulations to Matt and Astin.

September 30, 2019 — Nicholas Atgemis

Mount Kosciuszko - The Highest Fashion For The Highest Mountain

There is a troubled romance I have had with the Snowy Mountains of Australia that comes from my childhood and has played out over a few decades and has given me an endless amount of material as fodder for story telling. For example, one time I broke my leg on Mount Selwyn as a young boy, broke it at the shin from memory, my leg was twisted in such a manner and I was in agony. They got me up the mountain on the banana and I was in their makeshift room for the injured waiting on an ambulance with my mother holding my hand. Outside I could hear skidding tyres for a couple of hours. Everyone from our skiing party came to commiserate the end of my skiing for the year. I was teary eyed. Later I would learn that the skidding was tyres was the ambulance that was bogged outside and could not take me to Cooma until they freed it. By the time I got in the back my mother and I got wacked on the happy gas all the way to hospital though she sternly told me I was to tell nobody she had a hit.

August 19, 2019 — Nicholas Atgemis

A VERY ENDEARING STORY

Anyway, without further ado, and without wanting to get ahead of my skis, I was very chuffed to get the testimonial below sent through from a new customer of ours.

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Hello Le Noeud Papillon,

I wanted to share with you a story from today. A seven year old girl with mucopolysaccharidosis, who needs to come into hospital weekly for treatments, absolutely loves the colour purple. Last week when she came in she was very upset about some challenges she’d had sleeping. I promised her next week I’d wear a purple tie.

Today I wore your perfect bow tie, purple with white polka dots (and reverso of purple satin) and she was thrilled. I promised her at the start of her treatment (which takes 6 hours) if she weren’t too tired at the end I’d show her how it’s tied. After waiting patiently, she was totally enthralled with how it works.

Thank you for making wonderful bow ties!

C. Kundle,

Canberra, Australia.

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July 29, 2019 — Nicholas Atgemis

For The Love Of Money - Crocodile Wallets Last So Much Longer

NB: I am not paid to post nor do I receive a discount for posting this review.

Money is the root of all evil - until you don't have any - then you don't see it in quite the same light. I love money. As someone once said to me 'money's not everything - but it ranks up there with oxygen'.

There is an Israeli diamond trader that recently said to a friend of mine 'I feel naked without twoooo thouuusssand dollars in my pocket'. The friend keeps it in a roll, sometimes in a money clip. Always in 100 bills which are ordinarily so hard to come by.

But money is changing. It used to be visceral. Show me the cash and then we'll negotiate. Now it's this strange milieu of web apps, desktops and NFC tapping that has take some of the glamour away of having a fancy credit card or a lovely wallet in which to put it in.

This year, after nearly fourteen years, I finally had to get a new wallet. My last two were purchased from Heather Brown of Di Croco in Sydney's Double Bay. Since then she moved to Darwin and keeps a single store up there. Her skins, from memory, are tanned in Singapore and she uses only the best Australian saltwater crocodile skins. Plus, she's clever enough to design them for Australian notes, which is so much more alluring than the European wallets that often are much deeper. It's the smartest best quality wallet for Australian's that I have seen. Simple, elegant, lithe. And, it has crocodile both inside and outside.

July 25, 2019 — Nicholas Atgemis