Feraud
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Very cool and psychedelic!
These came in. Pretty cool. The tips aren't lined like they look, the back of the fabric is white.
i can't think of the term for this but in book binding they often use outer pages that have this type of color swirls just inside the cover. Something about putting the colors on water and letting them float to form a pattern. If the ties are white on the inside they're probably printed like the pages somehow.
:whistlingI don't know if it is possible to do with fabric, but those look exactly like the kind of pattern you'd get out of Ebru (Turkish water-marbling)
updating this thread...
found this at the Goodwill today (along with several other late-50s square-end ties). Labeled Haband - Sheen Gabardine by Mallinson of 5th Ave.
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the marbling effect on those ties reminds me of Wham-O's super elastic bubble plastic
The fumes off of that stuff was the equivilant of huffing chemicals today.
^^These Indian-made ties were popular for years, and it's not always easy to date them. I'll stick my neck out, though, and say that judging from the width and the label, that it's likely from the first half of the '50s. [huh]
An assortment of tie racks.