A Sam (and David) Hober Tie Appreciation Thread - Page 4

Nice ties,now,when are you going to put them up for sale?

ha, the only time i sell these is when im impatient to wait for a swatch, order impulsively and then realize i should have ordered a different color....

Are the two ties to the right of the check pattern tie satin, reppe, or wool?

Lightbringer, I am very happy to hear that you liked your order, and I thank you for your website comments. Actually our site is much better now than it has been in years past - really. I can remember a number of comments from a while back along the lines of we love you and your ties but your site is very difficult to order from. One gentleman from California who went on to start his own clothing website said that he couldn't see how anyone except myself could understand our ordering process - so I of course helped him with his monthly order. And there is a rhyme and a reason for the simple evolution of our site. We love what we are doing in every way and that includes building our website - and we trained ourselves as we went along. It has been fun - but it is the natural evolution of things that we can't do everything ourselves. On the other hand as we expand our team we can still do many things ourselves. We used to do a lot of silk farming and dyeing and reeling and weaving on our farm which is about 5 hours from Bangkok. I want to do more of this so that we can expand our range of silks that we weave and print ourselves. No money will be saved but it will be fun and very creative. This evening I was thinking of having our Italian wool interlinings dyed in Italy after weaving but before we receive them instead of hand dyeing here in our Bangkok workshop as we currently do. The idea would be to free up some our seamstress' time but I decided to continue doing the dyeing in-house so that we can control the quality. So we are moving towards new computer systems, hiring a photographer and graphic designer and so on... Although I am skeptical that a website for custom made/bespoke ties will ever be so smoothly designed that the personal touch will not be needed. Which is why I am always available to answer questions. Luckily for us most of the gentlemen who buy luxury ties can read and write English. We basically work 6 days a week now making ties and pocket squares and in the past we worked 7 days a week for years at a time literally to keep up with our orders. I mention this to explain that we simply have not had time to really polish our website and it didn't seem like a priority - but now is the time to move forward. More and better photographs, diagrams and layouts etc.. Guest, Thank you for your question - I am very sorry but our workshop is not open to the public and if we allowed visitors we would never get our orders finished. I am of course happy to help you personally if you would like to email. I actually am very social and perhaps we do need to open a show room but our workshop is not near public transportation and hard to find so we would need to setup a new location. I will think about it.

first is wool (midnight blue) and the nxt is satin (navy)

A regular three fold cashmere, a tipped lined six-fold and the untipped one posted before.

love the one on the right

thank you david! that's cool. was just wondering if thai locals had an easier time ordering being much nearer and all.

This thread is so dangerous to my pocketbook.

That's the truth.

You and me both, brother. Just ordered several fabric swatches. It's only a matter of time now until the raping and pillaging of my wallet begins.

My Hober ties are easily my favorites.

Cross-posted from soporific thread--midnight navy and bright navy repp twill solids in unlined, untipped, true 7-fold construction.











Borrelli handwork comparison

I couldn't have put it better myself...

And I'm trying SO hard to save for an engagement ring for my gf

lovely. however, the need for swatches is apparent. the colors are very different from hober's site.

Thank you.
Awesome tie.

I like the self-tipping.