Welcome to Ian's Shoelace Site

Fun, fashion & science in the Internet's #1 website about shoelaces – and home of the Ian Knot, the world's fastest shoelace knot. If you want to lace shoes, tie shoes or learn about shoelaces, “Ian's Shoelace Site” is the place!

Lacing Shoes

The most extensive section of this website, including over 100 × step-by-step shoe lacing tutorials, 2,000 × shoe lacing photos, plus the interactive “Create-a-Lace” for designing your own lacing.

Tying Shoes

Contains 20 × shoelace knots, including my world's fastest “Ian Knot”, plus important info on preventing the “Granny Knot”, which causes shoelaces to sit crooked and come undone.

Learn About Shoelaces

Heaps of knowledge about shoelaces, including their construction, length calculations – even what the tips are called, as well as Ian's interviews, articles, reviews, Q&As and more.

About

Information about this website and the site's author, Ian Fieggen – including Ian's contact details. Also info on this site's sponsors plus various ways that you, too, can support Ian.

Connect With Professor Shoelace

Contact Ian Fieggen via e-mail or connect with “Professor Shoelace” via YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Gfycat or RSS feed.

Search This Site

Looking for something? This website has more than 250 pages – which can be daunting to wade through! Search the whole of Ian's Shoelace Site using Google Custom Search.

Latest Photo

19-Jul-2020 – Shoe Lacing Photo of the Week

White Adidas sneakers with black trim and red & white and blue & white Checkerboard Lacing (from Kristi I).

Interesting how the blue is dominant on the left and the red is dominant on the right.

More Shoe Lacing Photos

Latest Video

21-Jul-2020 – How to Tighten Shoelaces

Added YouTube video showing a dozen different shoe lacing methods with their own particular way of tightening – some of which are fast and efficient, some slow and tedious.

Watch video here

Watch on YouTube

What's New?

Updated all YouTube videos

07-Aug-2020 – Major update to all YouTube videos. Each now includes “chapters”, which allow fast and easy skipping through the video, plus each has improved thumbnail images and subtitles.

Updated “Interviews & Articles”

27-Jun-2020 – Added transcript of a lengthy on-air interview from back in 2006 on ABC Radio (Australia).

Updated “Interviews & Articles”

07-Jun-2020 – Added my interviews for “GQ”, “Yahoo! Picks Profiles”, “RealStyle”, “Journal Inquirer”, “Peace Magazine” and “Life & Style”.

Optimized 69 × Shoe Lacing Methods

28-May-2020 – I've spent most of May optimizing the step-by-step shoe lacing diagrams, building a library of 700+ composite images. Each lacing method now loads much faster & more efficiently.

Updated “Shoelace Construction”

11-May-2020 – First additions to this new section of the website, including details of the types of materials used in shoelaces plus the most common construction method.

Recent Website Feedback

I threw a bit into your tip jar; hope it helps. Though I don't visit often, fieggen.com is uniroinically one of my favourite corners of the internet. Low on the modern-web-BS, you've got the thing you like and you're gonna talk aaalll about it, and I like how you accept corrections (like the bit about discovering that the “Ian [Secure] Knot” isn't a new knot).

– Jack K., Jan-2020

I'm using your lace site for a long time, almost about ten years and I absolutely love it. I cannot show how happy I am to come across such a wonderful and useful, purely informative website.

– Sinan C., Turkey, Nov-2019

I stumbled across your shoelace site and was frankly astonished at the level of detail and effort. I would go so far as to say this website serves as one of the best compilation of knowledge regarding shoelaces the World has ever seen.

– Ethan G., Jul-2019

Just wanted to say thank you for your shoelace site. It's so well documented! And organized. AND thorough! It's like the encyclopeadia britannica of shoelaces :)

– Philip B., Jun-2019