How to tie a scarf

I've been making some lacy design scarves lately so I thought it might be a good idea to offer some inspiration on different ways to wear scarves with a step-by-step guide on how to go about achieving each style.

Due to the near constant wet weather in the UK right now, these photos have been taken indoors with artificial light and against a printed fabric backdrop, not my usual outdoors in natural light photos, but they are my own and feature a much used scarf that I made for my husband years ago, so apologies if the scarf looks a bit tatty, it's old and well used but was perfect for the job of demonstration.

Classic Ascot style 

1. Drape the scarf around your neck, leave the scarf dangling down over your left shoulder and take the right side over your right shoulder, across your throat and over your left shoulder towards your back and then across the back of your neck again and over your right shoulder. The two ends of the scarf need to hang at about equal lengths.
   
   
2. Tie a loose simple knot.
   
   
3. Tighten the knot and arrange so that one end of the scarf lays flat on top of the other end. Obviously you can adjust the tightness of it around your neck for comfort.

La Loop

1. Fold the scarf in half and lay it across your shoulders with the loop one side and the scarf ends at the other.
   
   
2. Tuck the ends of the scarf through the loop.
   
   
3. Adjust for comfort and style.

Twist and Shout 

1. A twisted version of La Loop. Fold the scarf in half and twist it before laying it across your shoulders.
   
   
2. Tuck the ends of the scarf through the loop.
   
   
3. Adjust for comfort and style.

Wonder Weave

1. Drape the scarf around your neck with the left side hanging much lower than the right.
   
   
2. Take the long left side of the scarf and loosely wrap it around your neck and back over your left shoulder to hang down the front.
   
   
3. This next step sounds complicated but it isn't really. Looking at the middle photo above, you see the part of the scarf that is lay flat hanging down from your right shoulder, you need to take the left hand part of the scarf that you've just wrapped around your neck underneath that and then over the top of the loop created when you wrapped the scarf around your neck. The right hand part of the scarf will now be laying more to the left and the left hand part will be laying more to the right. See the third photo.
   
   
4. Adjust and tighten for style and comfort. I've added extra photos below to help with clarity of final look.

There are, undoubtedly, many more ways in which to style and wear a scarf and a quick search of the internet will bring you more ideas. Happy hunting.