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Welcome to Ian's Shoelace Site!
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Fun, fashion & science in this quirky site about shoelaces. Whether you want to learn to lace shoes, tie shoelaces,
stop shoelaces from coming undone, calculate shoelace lengths or even repair aglets, Ian's Shoelace Site has the
answer!
You can find out more
About This Site, or you can dive right in below.
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Table of Contents
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Lacing Shoes
Are all of your shoes, sneakers and boots still laced up the way they were when you bought them? This section
presents some of the many fascinating ways of lacing, either for different functions or just for appearances. Why
not take the plunge? Whip out those laces and re-do them to suit your needs or personality. |
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Tying Shoelaces
Most people learn to tie their shoelaces around the age of five. Why then would anyone older than that visit a web
site about tying shoelaces? Whether you're a parent, teacher, occupational therapist, academic, knot enthusiast, or
just after some self-help, there's something for you. |
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Slipping Shoelaces?
Do your shoelaces always come undone? If so, you're probably tying a "Granny Knot", and one simple change to your
technique will result in a balanced knot that sits straight and stays secure. |
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Crooked Bows?
Do your shoelace bows sit vertically instead of across the shoe? Do your hair ribbons refuse to sit straight? What
about crooked bows on wedding invitations? All of these can be fixed with one simple change to your tying technique,
creating a "balanced" knot that sits straight. |
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Shoelace Lengths
Many shoes nowadays come with shoelaces that are way too long. On the other hand, breaking a shoelace can leave it
too short. Calculating the correct shoelace length for a particular shoe with a particular lacing method involves
some pretty complicated mathematics. This section presents a Web-Based Calculator plus the underlying Shoelace Length Formulas
to allow manual calculation. |
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Shoelace Tips
This section covers two meanings of the word "Tips". Firstly, there's "Shoelace Hints" for teaching children, for
sportspeople, disabled people and everyone. Secondly, there's info on "Shoelace Ends" (= Aglets), including how to
repair or replace them. |
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Shoelace Marketplace
Looking to buy shoelaces or related items? Ian's Shoelace Site doesn't yet have a web store, but in the marketplace
you'll find selected merchants of shoelaces, accessories, gadgets, books (including my own book), as well as my
newly released iPhone app, "Ian's Laces". |
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Frequently Asked Questions (F.A.Q.)
You'll find the answers to Frequently Asked Questions here, mainly for the benefit of people typing those questions
into search engines. It's also worth looking here before you send me a question for which I've already posted an
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Shoelace News Stories
Shoelaces are common, useful items. Here's some links to recent news stories, where you'll discover some of the
good and bad, happy and sad events either caused by or involving shoelaces. |
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Shoelace & Knotting Links
Here's some links to other shoelace and knot related web sites. Providing links is good "Netiquette", enabling the
Internet to effectively become its own index. |
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Breaking News!
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Ian's Laces App for iPhone and iPod Touch was recently a Featured App in the U.S. App Store, and rose quickly
to be the #1 top selling Reference App!
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What's New?
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Follow Professor Shoelace on Twitter for updates to this site. |
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06-Dec-2009 - Updated
Shoelace Books.
Added newly released book,
"The Official C.I.A. Manual of Trickery and Deception", which contains several ways of lacing shoes to convey
silent messages to fellow agents. |
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02-Dec-2009 - Updated
Shoelace News Stories.
Added story of a boy who was arrested after shooting his mother in the back with a handmade bow and arrow, in which
the bow was made from a fishing rod and a shoelace. |
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19-Nov-2009 - Updated
Shoelace News Stories.
Added story of a teen who fell 100ft down a cliff after trying to retrieve a new trainer, which he accidentally
kicked off because the laces were undone. |
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12-Nov-2009 -
Ian's Laces App hits #1!
Since featuring on the U.S. App Store yesterday, Ian's Laces App has already risen to the #1 top selling app in the
"Reference" category! |
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Shoe Lacing Photo of the Week
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Black Skechers sneakers with magenta, silver & white trim and magenta & silver Zipper Lacing (from TNTV).
Ten pairs of eyelets produced a very densely woven Zipper.
More Lacing Photos. |
This page last updated: 09-Dec-2009. Copyright © 2003-2009 by
Ian W. Fieggen. All rights reserved.
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