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Loop Back Lacing
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Each side loops back on itself down the middle, rather like when two springs become intertwined. However, those
loop-backs tend to shift off-centre.
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The cover of my book,
Laces, came pre-laced with Loop Back Lacing!
Piotrek R used multiple lace colors and deliberately shifted the loop-backs off-centre to create this angled effect.
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Lacing Technique:
1. The lace is run straight across the bottom (grey section) and emerges through both bottom eyelets.
2. The left (blue) end is spiralled up the left side of the shoe, with the end fed under and emerging from each
eyelet.
3. The right (yellow) lace is spiralled up the right side of the shoe, at each eyelet looping through the left
(blue) lace in the middle of the shoe before feeding under and emerging from the next eyelet.
Features:
Decorative look
Laces wear more
Centreline shifts
Comparative Length = 104%
Laced area uses more (about +4%)
Longer laces needed (about +2%)
Shortens lace ends (about −4%)
More details
Using This Lacing:
Loop Back lacing looks best on shoes with thick laces, especially light colored laces on dark colored shoes. These
accentuate the fact that the laces loop back on themselves rather than simply crossing over each other.
Variations:
When combined with
Half & Half Lacing, the result is a different color on each side of the shoe. Note that the division doesn't
have to run neatly down the middle of the shoe. It can instead be run at an angle, as demonstrated at bottom-left. |
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Related Links
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Lug Loop Back Lacing
Same lacing method for shoes with lugs instead of eyelets.
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Twistie Lacing
Similar method with the laces given a full twist instead of a half twist.
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This page last updated: 19-Jan-2012. Copyright © 2005-2012 by
Ian W. Fieggen. All rights reserved.
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