What did the small knot say? I'm tied up.

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The small knot, also known as oriental knot, Kent knot, or simple knot,^[1] is the simplest method of tying a necktie. Unlike the Four-in-hand knot and Windsor knot, the small knot is not self-releasing. The small knot is tied inside out, though this can be mitigated by giving the tie a half-twist during the tying process.

Using the notation from The 85 Ways to Tie a Tie, the knot is tied

Lo Ri Co T.

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↑ Hall, Daniel K. (2008). How to tie a tie. New York: Sterling Pub. Co. p. 53. ISBN 978-1-4027-2757-3.

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Wikibooks has a book on the topic of: How To Tie A Tie

v t e Necktie knots
Necktie knots	Four-in-hand knot (simple or schoolboy) Grantchester knot Half-Windsor knot Merovingian knot Nicky knot Pratt knot (Shelby) Small knot (Oriental or Kent) Windsor knot (full Windsor)
See also	The 85 Ways to Tie a Tie

v t e Knots
Bight Turn List of knots List of knot terminology
Bends	Adjustable Albright special Ashley's Alpine butterfly Basket weave Beer Blood Carrick Fisherman's Flemish Grief Halyard Harness Heaving line Hunter's Nail Offset overhand Racking Sheet Shoelace Shroud Simple Simon under Single carrick Surgeon's Surgeon's loop True lover's Water Zeppelin
Binding	Boa Bottle sling Constrictor Corned beef Granny Ground-line hitch Miller's Packer's Reef Strangle Thief Transom
Climbing	Autoblock Bachmann Beer Bowline on a bight Alpine butterfly Directional figure eight Double bowline Double fisherman's Farmer's loop Figure-eight Figure-eight loop Figure-of-nine loop Friction hitch Klemheist Munter hitch Noose Overhand loop Prusik Trident loop Yosemite bowline
Coils & shanks	Chain sinnet Sheepshank
Decorative	Carrick mat Chinese button Celtic button Diamond Fiador Friendship Ghiordes & Senneh Matthew Walker Turk's head Wall and crown (triple crown knot)
Fishing (angling)	Angler's loop Arbor Bimini twist Blood Fisherman's Improved clinch Knotless Nail Palomar Snell Trilene Turle Uni
Hitches	Adjustable grip Anchor bend Axle Bachmann Bale sling Barrel Becket Blackwall Blake's Boom Buntline Cat's paw Clove Cow Distel Double overhand noose Falconer's Farrimond friction Friction hitch Garda Ground-line Half Halter Highpoint Highwayman's Hitching tie Icicle Improved clinch Killick Knute Lobster buoy Marlinespike Munter Ossel Pile Pipe Sailor's Snuggle Swing Taut-line Timber Trucker's Tumble
Loop	Angler's Artillery loop Bale sling hitch Bowline Bumper Carrick bend loop Cowboy bowline Diamond Double bowline Dropper loop Eskimo bowline Fiador Fireman's chair Friendship knot Halter hitch Handcuff Honda Jury mast Overhand Portuguese bowline Rigid double splayed loop in the bight Slippery eight Span Spanish bowline Tom fool's Trident Triple bowline Water bowline Yosemite bowline Zeppelin
Running (slip)	Hangman's Running bowline Tarbuck
Splicing	Eye Fid Marlinspike Rat-tail T Western Union
Stopper	Ashley's stopper Button Double overhand Figure-eight knot Monkey's fist Overhand Stevedore
Whipping	Common Overhand knot with draw-loop Sailmaker's West Country
Related	Chinese knotting Density International Guild of Knot Tyers Macramé Mathematical knots and links Mizuhiki Norigae Ropework Lashing Seizing Sennit
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