Backdated content. I hadn’t stopped collecting links when I wasn’t posting, so there are many, many, many links to post…

Things to buy
Knotty Estian Jessica Tai is interviewed.
http://www.myshoppingconnection.com/articles/designer-spotlight/spotlight-on-jessica-tai.php

Events
Family Day at the Princeton University Art Museum was May 16, 2009 where Asian art and culture was the theme and Chinese knotting (among other things) was demonstrated.
http://centraljersey.com/articles/2009/05/22/the_princeton_packet/your_views/doc4a16c272c1e6f056666342.txt

Articles
Franciscans use the knots on their belts as reminders. Gee, I always thought it was more ceremonial/spiritual than that.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1087257.html

Using knots for evil. Killing women with clove hitches. Read about the doings of a serial killer at the following link.
http://www.wisn.com/news/19574296/detail.html

Fashion
Clip-on ties in the name of child safety.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1183109/Clip-ties-squeezing-traditional-knots-schools-crack-health-safety-blitz.html

Maybe because my kids don’t wear uniforms, I’m less concerned about kids and ties than I am about doctors and ties.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn5029-doctors-ties-harbour-diseasecausing-germs.html

And a response to the school tie controversy
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/mortarboard/2009/may/18/school-tie-blog

More of the same (are ties over and done or not?) about ties
http://www.watoday.com.au/executive-style/style/the-tie-dead-or-alive-20090518-bb6v.html

And again
http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/fashion/article01/indexn2_html?pdate=150509&ptitle=Well-knotted