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Turquoise Turtle Shoelace Knot
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Also known as the "Shoemaker's Knot", this is a lesser known secure shoelace knot: Make a
Two Loop Shoelace Knot ("Bunny Ears"), but before pulling tight, pass the loop and adjacent loose end through
the middle for a second time.
The knot is named after a parcel knot used in a boutique called the "Turquoise Turtle".
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Step 1:
Tie a Left-over-Right
Starting Knot as shown, then make both ends into "loops" by simply doubling them back onto themselves. I guess
they should still be called "Bunny Ears", because they don't look like "Turtle Ears"!
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Step 2:
Cross the two loops over each other so that the right (blue) loop ends up in front and the left (yellow) loop ends
up behind. The yellow loop is now the right loop.
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Step 3:
Begin to wrap the right (yellow) loop around the left (blue) loop to end up in front. To this point, the knot is
exactly the same as the
Two Loop Shoelace Knot.
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Step 4:
Feed the right (yellow) loop through the "hole" that has just been made. Feed a fair amount through so that you
still have a good length of loop to work with.
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Step 5:
Take the right (yellow) loop
and the right (blue) loose end together as a "bundle" and wrap them
both around so that they end up in front.
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Step 6:
The "bundle" is now fed into the "hole" between the laces. Like the
Surgeon's Shoelace Knot, this second wrap & feed-through is the "secret recipe" that makes this knot secure.
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Step 7:
Now, simply pull the loops to tighten the knot. Believe it or not, the whole twisted mess of the previous drawing
will rearrange itself into exactly the same finished knot as my
Ian's Secure Shoelace Knot.
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NOTE:
The final drawing shows an open and somewhat stylised version of the finished knot, which is theoretically the same
as the finished
Ian's Secure Shoelace Knot.
However, because this knot isn't created symmetrically, it can end up looking completely different, especially if
there's not enough slack for the laces to rearrange themselves during tightening.
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Finished Knot
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The finished knot should be a tight, closed knot with a double wrap around the middle, as compared to the single
wrap of either my
Ian Knot or any
Standard Shoelace Knot. |
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Technical Details
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Variations:
I've seen this knot described slightly differently in various knotting books.
- This knot is often described with a
Double Starting Knot, which I consider to be an "optional extra" that makes this knot a little more secure.
- In Step (5), instead of feeding through the yellow loop and blue loose end (on the right side), feed through the
blue loop and yellow loose end (on the left side). In this way, the knot is almost identical to the
Ian's Secure Shoelace Knot, where the only difference is that the loose end is not fed through.
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