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We begin the year with a portrait competition. Entries close March 31st, 2025. This year's first competition is focused on a self-portrait using pencils, crayons, texta, fountain pens, ink, brush and paper. You are basically encouraged to find whatever you have within your office or home and get cracking. No digital art or AI is allowed in this competition. We really want you to go back to analogue. Paintings using brush and paint will not be accepted, however, ink and brush on paper will be. 

The first prize will be $1000.00 cash. The two runners up will receive $500.00 in gift vouchers to the website at RRP. We wish you the best of luck and we will be available to answer any questions.

But, most of all, have fun!

Text +61413140994 if you need help 24/7.

A hand-tied velvet bow tie. It's not easy to make, you need to baste the fabric, you need to carefully guide the sewing machine, and then, once you are happy you managed to get the lines right, you need to carefully invert the bow tie without damaging the velvet. If you think that's easy, try to have a go yourself. In the end, creating a hand-tied bow tie is a work of love, but it's a very handsome proposition for evening wear, and we want you to have the best of what's available.

Hello, my name is Nicholas Atgemis. Each week we make products from our Sydney work room. We design silk, we procure silk, we cut silk, we sew silk, we tie silk and we write about silk. And when it is all said and done we pack it off to you beautifully and send it around the world. 

This week we have been cutting silks that were procured from a recent trip to Japan. It was very fruitful. As our customers know, we take pride not only weaving silk with Italy and England's finest weavers, but we also spend a great deal of time procuring the beautiful, the obscure and the rare from all four corners of the globe. 

If you would like to know more about what we are cutting right now, take a look on our Instagram at @lenoeudpapillon where you can see what we have been up to of recent. Otherwise you can text us day or night on Whatsapp on +61413140994 .

This is Nicholas. An old friend. I did his wedding bow ties, I was in fact part of the wedding party. Great night but I screwed my speech I thought I was being funny but it went down not so well. Still a sore point I imagine but we don't talk about it anymore.

Nicholas came past for his wife's birthday party and I sold him a parachute silk bandana, he trusted me, and it paid off. Coupled with his new pochette from us, he got loads of compliments and the following day announced that he was now a bandana man. Maybe. Sometimes when men tell you they are a convert its a little like when as a tourist you visit a great city or village, make promises to the locals you will be back soon but you never do. 

Anyway, time will tell whether he is a true convert but for the moment anyway I have a new muse for them.