Tying Collection

Japanese Geisha girl getting dressed into her kimono. The final task of tying the large belt sash around her waist. A traditional tea ceremony set can be seen in the lower left-hand corner of

Gilt-edged Security by Elsie Harding
Illustration by Elsie Harding featuring a beautiful and elegant young woman with red hair just visible tying a bandeau style cloche hat in gold colours around her lovely head

Toilet / Tying Hair 1918
Attractive young woman at her dressing table, tying up her hair

Model indoors in elegant nightgown with sheer skirt. Date: circa 1965

Art deco style illustration showing a lady wrapping a variety of colourful Christmas presents. Date: 1946

Rope Loads Securely
British Railway's staff information poster, designed by Frank Newbould, c.1950. This poster highlights the importance of tying a load safely. Date: circa 1950

Japan - Bamboo Blind maker
Bamboo Blind maker, Japan. Date: circa 1920s

Three natives tying a gazelle carcass for transportation
This scene is from a journey across the Sahara taken by Lt D.R.G. Cameron of the Royal Scots. The caption says that the gazelle was a Dama's Gazelle a new subspecies discovered during

1860s Japan - portrait of a young woman tying her obi sash Felice or Felix Beato (1832 - 29 January 1909), Italian-British photographer working mostly in India, Japan, China

Comic postcard, Pretty woman in her bedroom - tying her stays Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Leapfrogging on the beach Date: 20th century

Cowboys tying an outlaw horse, 101 Ranch, Oklahoma, USA. Date: 1908

Cast iron figure, Hitching Post
Popular Art in the USA - cast iron figure, Hitching Post, used for tying horses to. late 19th century

God Speed

LADY TYING ON HAT 1904
A lady sits at her dressing table and tries on a new hat. Date: 1904

A pretty girl adjusts her shoe on a bollard
"...now the Boys away!" pretty girl adjusting her shoe on a bollard (revealing bright blue stockings and a frilly petticoat) as she heads out for a night on the town.... Date: 1910

Bukta scout clothing and equipment advert
Advertisement for Bukta, publisher of the Scoutannica catalogue featuring all conceivable clothing and equipment needed to be a fully fledged boy scout including tents

Black silk organza dress
A black silk organza dress by Dior. The bodice is banded in black satin ribbon which is also used for the sash tying in a rosette highlighted with a diamante clip. Date: 1961

Tying an evening dress bow tie
Learning to dodge mans stumbling block - typing an evening dress bow - how it is done. Date: 1909

Pulling and Tying Flax, Co. Antrim - a view of men and women pulling and tying flax by hand in a field. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Antrim). Date: circa early 1900s

The Corset -- a young woman tying or untying her corset. circa 1850s

Woman police officer with small boys, London
Woman police officer on duty in London, tying the shoelace of a small boy as his friends look on. Date: circa 1920s

Council worker with Christmas tree, Eccles, Manchester
A Council worker ties a Christmas tree to the outside of a library in Eccles, Manchester. Date: circa 1977

Tying The Knot. Grangetown, Middlesbrough 1970s Date: 1970s

Oxford University under arms, instruction in knot tying
Members of the Officers Training Corps at Oxford University pictured being instructed in knot tying in 1915. Date: 1915

Tying on a pack, Toyah, Texas, USA
Three men tying a pack onto a patient horse at Toyah, a small town in Texas, USA. Date: circa 1908

Favourite Sayings - Bend the sapling
Black and white lantern slide showing a young man on a ladder leaning against a mature tree tying a length of wood to the tree with a rope

China - Tying-up Station on the Pei-Ho
Lantern slide of Martow, a Tying-up Station on the Pei-Ho.. Part of Box 159 Pekin, slide no.9 Date: circa 1890s

Dutch sea scouts on sailing boat, Holland
Dutch sea scouts on a sailing boat, Holland

Dutch sea scouts tying knots, Holland
Four Dutch sea scouts tying knots, Holland. Date: 1972

Cub Scouts of Episkopi pack tying knots, Cyprus
Three Cub Scouts of the 57th Cyprus (Episkopi) pack learning to tie knots, under the instruction of their leader. Date: 20th century

LFB Engineering Workshop - Hose couplings tied Date: circa 1930s

Women working on a tobacco farm, Norfolk, WW1
Women workers gathering the harvest on the tobacco farm at Methwold, Norfolk in 1915. Picture 1 shows them tying and looping tobacco to be placed on stays

Loading timber-carrying Mules - Mexico Date: circa 1904

Tying hair. Print shows a woman combing the hair of another woman. Date between 1798 and 1801

To the right hon able Lord Viscount Kingsborough, ... this plate representing a perspective view of a lapping room, with the measuring, crisping or folding the cloth in lengths

12th Deutsches Turnfest at Leipzig
12th Deutsches Turnfest (German Gymnastics Festival) at Leipzig - 12th-16th July, 1913. Adorning the festival garland Date: 1913

Braces advertisement
Advertisement for Shirley President braces, which, according to the copy, instantly adjust themselves to every motion of the body

Aden Patrol Leaders course
Scouts tying knots on a Patrol Leaders & Seconds Course in Aden. 1954

Putting on a corset - with assistance
A lady requires some assistance in the tightening of the laces of her corset. The rather caustic caption reads: " Reducing the Surplus" !! Date: circa 1905

Sierra Leone - Making a Seine net
Sierra Leone - Fishermen making a Seine net. A seine is a large fishing net that hangs in the water due to weights along the bottom edge and floats along the top

Hay Harvest
Tying up bales of hay to be stacked. Date: 1880

Elegant young woman -- The Final Touch
An elegant young woman puts on the final touch at her mirror before going out -- a gold coloured headscarf

Sheep Shearing in Bulgaria - tying up the recently-shorn fleeces

Two Men tie reeds by a stream
Two men working by a stream (in a former Indian province which now forms part of Modern Pakistan). They are tying up bundles of reeds. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

Old Salt teaches knot tying to a young boy
An elderly sailor teaches a young lad how to tie some nautical knots. Watercolour painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Sailor tying a ladies shoe, Thames Embankment, 1893
Engraving showing a British sailor bending to tie a Victorian ladys shoelace, on the Thames Embankment, London, 1893. This image, by Davidson Knowles, was originally entitled A Sailors Knot

Gardening Tasks
Digging - Hotbed - Dibbling - Pruning and nailing - Grafting - Raking - Edging - Tying up

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