Lacing Shoes

Contains over 100 × step-by-step shoe lacing tutorials, over 2,800 × shoe lacing photos, plus the interactive “Create-a-Lace” for designing your own lacing.

Shoe Lacing Methods

An extensive selection of 62 × shoe lacing tutorials, including traditional, decorative, practical and military methods.

Bi-Color Lacing Methods

Lacing shoes with two different colors is a great way to display country or team colors or simply to make use of the spare shoelaces that are supplied with many sneakers nowadays.

Lug Lacing Methods

Many shoes, sneakers and boots come with lugs or hooks instead of eyelets. This section presents a number of variations of regular Lacing Methods adapted to run through lugs or hooks.

U-Lace Methods

U-Lace are short, individual elasticized segments for simple, modular lacing – even in multiple colors. This section presents a number of variations of regular Lacing Methods adapted for use with U-Lace.

Create-a-Lace

Create-a-Lace is an “interactive lacing diagram” for creating new lacing methods (which it will try to identify) or experimenting with existing methods.

2 Trillion Lacing Methods?

On an average shoe with six pairs of eyelets, there are almost 2 Trillion ways to feed a shoelace through those twelve eyelets! Impossible? This page shows the maths behind that extraordinary number.

Shoe Lacing Comparison

I've presented a number of different Shoe Lacing Methods on this website. This page compares them feature by feature to help you choose.

Shoe Lacing Ratings

All of the Shoe Lacing Methods on this site allow visitors to rate them from 1 to 5 stars (1=Awful to 5=Excellent). This page shows the results of those ratings.

Shoe Lacing Photos

Huge gallery of more than 2,800 photos of sneakers, shoes, boots & more with every imaginable combination of lacing methods – mostly contributed by this site's visitors.

Recent Visitor Feedback

Some friends of mine in the military have explained to me that this method [CAF Combat Boot Lacing] ... allows the boot to be cut off and removed quickly and safely by slicing along one side of the laces, which can be important for giving medical care.

– Mel B., Manitoba, Canada, Oct-2026

I came across your site by chance on “The Vintage Web”, and I've been meaning to change the lacing on my combat boots for a while as the round laces are far too long for me and don't stay tied. I gandered through your lacing methods and landed on the spiderweb lacing, and it turned out great! It fits the way I tightly lace my boots so well and allows me to hide the ends without them moving around and retighten them easily.

– Emily E., Oct-2026

I've been using the Over Under Lacing method for years. But I wanted to try something else. Here come the Double Helix lacing method. Eventually I found that both methods share similarities.

For my trainers (sneakers), I like the Double Helix method better. If the eyelets are tight, I find it easier to adjust (the way the animation shows). And like someone mentioned, I too found that it created more room over the instep. One bonus point is that the lace / tongue loop can be used in a way that it's doesn't protrude (See Tino B.'s picture).

I will still use the Over Under method for my boots and other shoes.

– TV. Y., Bordeaux, France, Oct-2026

“Straight European lacing,” which I grew up with, I consider an aesthetic mess, and it was hurting my feet—probably because of my anatomy.

I’ve adopted “Straight Bar Lacing” and “Straight Easy Lacing”. Both are far better in every way, even with odd numbers.

– Thomas B., Muenchen, Germany, Sep-2026

... still enjoying all the fun lacing methods with the step-by-step! Thanks for maintaining the website xx

– Michelle Y., Australia, Sep-2026

I think I bought your book for a gift a million years ago. I recently got some new shoes and wanted to use different laces that were too long but elastic so I can't shorten them. I tried a bunch of your styles and found one that worked. Thank you!

– Megan A., USA, Sep-2026

I had a pair of docs and got silver fat laces for them, but normal criss cross lacing made them tighter than I liked and left the ends short, while looking at lacings I found that the Starburst lengthens the ends and decided to try it. Wow this lacing not only looks great with my solar flare docs design, but functions great as well. The lace ends are much longer and usable, and the pressure on my foot is relieved quite a bit, on top of that I dont need to loosen the lace to get the boot on, just simply slip it on and tie a knot. When im done, I untie, and it slips right off. Perfect.

– Lenny JG, Nevada, USA, Aug-2026

I want to say I really love your lattice lacing method; it's my go-to style.

– Lulu V., Aug-2026