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Pentagram Lacing
This purely decorative lacing forms a pentagram, or five pointed star. Besides the "magical" associations, solid five pointed stars are found on many flags, most notably the fifty stars on the U.S. flag.
Method 1 (centred, shorter laces)
Pentagram Lacing diagram 1
Faint sections are underneath

Method 2 (full length, longer laces)
Pentagram Lacing diagram 2
Pentagram Lacing picture 1
In this photo, the top "rung" has been shifted up one set of eyelets to lengthen the top point.

Pentagram Lacing picture 2
This photo of Pentagram laced Enties was sent to me by Katharine W.
Lacing Technique:
1. The lace is run straight across (grey section) and the ends are fed in through the third set of eyelets from the top. Adjust the ends so that the left (blue) end is quite a bit longer than the right (yellow) end.

2. Both ends are run straight down on the inside, each skipping past one eyelet before emerging through the second lower eyelet down the shoe. These mark the bottom "corners" of the pentagram.

3. The left (blue) end forms the bottom "cross" as follows: The end is run diagonally up to the right to again feed in through the third eyelet from the top on the right side of the shoe, then continues straight down on the inside to again emerge through the bottom right "corner" of the pentagram, then diagonally up to the left, feeding a second time into the third eyelet from the top on the left side of the shoe.

4. The left (blue) end now continues to form the top "rung" as follows: The end is run straight up the inside and emerges through the next eyelet up the shoe, then continues straight across on the outside and is fed in through the eyelet on the right side, then again straight up the inside to emerge through the top right eyelet.

5. With the top "rung" completed, the right (yellow) end is now run diagonally up to the top middle and wrapped around that rung, then continues diagonally back down and left, feeding a second time in through the eyelet at the bottom left "corner" of the pentagram.

6. The left (yellow) end then continues all the way up the inside left of the shoe to emerge through the top left eyelet.


Features:
Decorative look
Loose fit
Harder to tighten

Comparative Length = 135%
Laced area uses more (about +35%)
Longer laces needed (about +17%)
Shortens lace ends (about −32%)
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NOTES:
It may take some experimentation to produce a pentagram with fairly even points, which will depend on the width of the shoe and the eyelet spacing.

Running the bottom "corners" through the bottom pair of eyelets increases the length of the lower points and shifts the pentagram further down the shoe. The top "rung" can be also be shifted higher to increase the length of the top point.

This lacing works best with thinner or flat laces because several eyelets have to accommodate two passes of shoelace.


Recent Photos (sent by site visitors)
Black & grey Airwalk sneakers with white & pink trim and fluoro pink & fluoro yellow combination of Double Lacing and Pentagram Lacing - Click to enlarge Tan boots with tan Pentagram Lacing - Click to enlarge Black Nike sneakers with white trim and white Pentagram Lacing - Click to enlarge Patterned black & white Converse All-Stars with fluoro pink trim and fluoro pink Pentagram Lacing - Click to enlarge Patterned multi-colored sneakers with white Pentagram Lacing - Click to enlarge Tan & grey Botas Classic sneakers with lime trim and grey Pentagram Lacing - Click to enlarge
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Similar lacing method with six-pointed star.

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