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 21 × 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 almost 300 pages – which can be daunting to wade through! Search the whole of Ian's Shoelace Site using Google Custom Search.

Latest Photo

03-Dec-2021

Shoe lacing photo high-res repost (originally posted in low-res on 01-Apr-2009).

Blue & navy blue PUMA sneakers with yellow & white trim laced with white Train Track Lacing (from David F.)

Good angle showing the insides of this lacing method.

More Shoe Lacing Photos

Latest Video

27-Aug-2021 – Untying shoes without jamming

This is my first video for some time, showing why shoelace knots sometimes jam when untying, plus giving some tips for preventing such jams.

Watch video: Untying shoes without jamming

Watch video here

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What's New?

Added “Berluti Knot Feedback”

01-Dec-2021 – Created separate page containing feedback that I've received from various visitors over the past 14 years about the Berluti Shoelace Knot.

Added “FreedomKnot Feedback”

01-Dec-2021 – Created separate page containing feedback that I've received from various visitors over the past 17 years about the FreedomKnot Shoelace Knot.

Added “Better Bow Knot Feedback”

27-Nov-2021 – Created separate page containing feedback that I've received from various visitors over the past 17 years about the Better Bow Shoelace Knot.

Added “Turquoise Turtle Knot Feedback”

27-Nov-2021 – Created separate page containing feedback that I've received from various visitors over the past 17 years about the Turquoise Turtle Shoelace Knot.

Added “Surgeon's Knot Feedback”

27-Nov-2021 – Created separate page containing feedback that I've received from various visitors over the past 17 years about the Surgeon's Shoelace Knot.

Recent Visitor Feedback

You have such a wonderful and useful site. For the last 5+ years I've been coming to your site every time I get a new pair of shoes. I get custom made converse all stars that need fun lacing. I'm happy to show my appreciation in some small way. I hope your site stays up for a long time, it's very useful.

– Adnan C., Nov-2021

First of all, i wanna say thank you for taking your time and make such a nice site and a youtube tube channel for this, i really like to spend time learning new methods and making in my boots.

– Jorge I., Brazil, Nov-2021

I originally came across your shoelace website when I was around 14, and quickly became known in my friend circles for my colourful, interestingly laced shoe laces, which I would often colour-coordinate with my outfit. I was wearing my 14-eye “1914” black docs those years, so I had a lot of room to work with!

I recently mentioned your site off-the-cuff to a friend, and was surprised to find someone else out in the wild who'd heard of it! So here I am, back again, a decade and half later to up my lacing game!

Rediscovering your website has been a really wholesome experience 😊

– Friday, Sep-2021

thanks so much- your website helped VERY much with straight lacing for dress shoes. . . . . . . and also when I did physical work. . . . my boots came untied constantly. I was doing Granny Knots. Fixed it then did the stronger double loop versions. perfect

– Matthew Z., Sep-2021

hey ian i think your website is super cool and way helpful. the navigation is really easy and i’m glad i found your website

– Maria F., Aug-2021