How to clean a silk tie? The dreaded stain.

You're sitting in a restaurant and a dollop of hollandaise inevitably drops onto your expensive silk tie. What do you do? The natural instinct is to put some water on...

Match your silk tie with a tailored shirt by ShirtSmart

So you've got your new Reef Knots silk tie, but your current range of shirts aren't really doing it justice. We're often asked about shirt colour, but shirt quality and...

Silk Ties - Printed or Woven Patterns?

When you buy a silk tie there are a number of decisions to make. If you're buying a patterned silk tie, one of the most important questions is whether you buy one with a woven design, or a printed design.

Why do men collect silk ties?

What item of clothing do you have most of? I would imagine it's silk ties. Men find it difficult to throw away a silk tie, (however infrequently they wear them)...

New Season Silk Ties - Coming Soon!

We hope that 2014 has started well for all of our customers. We've certainly got a lot planned for the coming year as we continue to try and build the...

Shirt and Tie Combos - Part 2: Patterned Ties and Shirts

A few weeks ago we had a very quick look at how to start matching plain silk ties with plain shirts. The sharp ones amongst you will have noticed that...

Ties - The perfect gift or a cliché?

Why are men's ties often seen as a cliché when it comes to being given as Christmas gifts? The tasteless present from a relative, destined to never see the light of...

Shirt and Tie Combos - Part 1: Solid Colours

It's always one of the first things that a customer asks when they pick up one of our men's silk ties. What type of shirt will this tie go with?...

Tie yourself to a small British business this Christmas!

We're passionate about making some of the best silk ties in the world, but we're also passionate about the small businesses of the UK. Starting and running a business is...

Is Tie-Rack's Death the End? Not a Chance...

If you want people to think you've really lost it, you can't do much better than start a tie company. You'll get lots of people looking at you smugly, telling...

Reef Knots Spotted on Made in Chelsea

Eagle-eyed viewers would have noticed one of our handmade luxury silk ties on the latest episode of Made in Chelsea on Monday. Reef Knots silk tie fan, Andy Jordan, upstaged...

Christmas Season has started at Reef Knots!

We've just finished a fantastically busy week at the Spirit of Christmas fair at Olympia. It's been great to meet so many of our customers and find lots more new...