Welcome to the TieLab!We will be closed Wed. 12/23 through Fri. 1/1 - if you require your order during that time, we regret we will not be able to fill it until we return from visiting family; they have not seen us in a year!
Cyberoptix Tie Lab founder Bethany Shorb has applied her experience as a sculptor, couture, costume and graphic designer to transform a much maligned business necessity into a subversive object of desire with her witty hand printed neckwear.
Cyberoptix ties and scarves are represented by more than 100 stores in a dozen countries: from Fred Segal in Los Angeles to Libertine in Western Australia.
A paradox for the times, Cyberoptix Tie Lab operates one of the largest eco-friendly, solvent-free print shops in the country right in Detroit while providing a seditious, punky fashion statement for executives bound to the neck noose, and a sharply styled alternative for those who don't need to wear a tie, but chose to do so.
See our new color and finish list!
Our ties are hand-silkscreened onto 100% charmeuse silk or microfiber; the microfiber is a rich, soft fabric resembling silk. Charmeuse silk is a much more expensive and elegant soft silk, smooth with a slight sheen to it.
We only use high quality waterbased inks which require no harmful solvents, this is better for both the health of our shop and for the health of our planet. Waterbased inks have a much softer hand on fine fabrics and will never crack over time as plastisol inks do.
Principal Designer
Holding an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art, New York area native Bethany Shorb has dabbled and excelled in disciplines ranging from sculpture, to fashion and graphic design, to photography, to multimedia and music. She has performed around the country as Toybreaker and as half of DethLab. As founder of Cyberoptix, she has designed a vast catalog of innovative couture, including the costumes for Skinny Puppy's 2004 world tour.
Some of the more complex, custom made ties are made with deconstructed vintage, recycled or other environmentally sustainable materials. Her work has been featured in various design blogs and print publications such as The New York Times Style Magazine, Details, Fiberarts, Bust, BPM, Adorn, and Industrial Nation.
Testimonials
"Bethany Shorb is breathing some long overdue freshness into neckties with her CYBEROPTIX TIE LAB. ...At around $40, these handmade beauties blow department store ties out of the water." -JoshSpear
"These ties are the perfect way to say, "I'm hip, AND I have I job." -BEN POPKEN , Consumerist
"...A fine line of beautifully darkly illustrated hand screen printed 100% charmeuse silk or poly-blend based ties." - NOTCOT
"Who needs to wear boring old ties when you can refashion them? The ties have all been silkscreened, cut apart, riveted, and stitched to distinctly new heights." -MakeMagazine
Care for your tie.
Silk ties can only be dry-cleaned, never washed! The microfiber can be gently spot washed and dried flat as the screenprinted design is heat-set for durability. Dry-cleaning is still recommeded for all ties to increase their lifespan. If you must use the washer (for microfiber only!!!!), please place the tie in a mesh bag or pillow case - this way it won't get all tangled around itself and ruin the shape. Do the same for the dryer-cycle.
