Create-a-Lace

Create-a-Lace is an “interactive lacing diagram” for creating new lacing methods (which it will try to identify) or experimenting with existing methods.

Interactive Lacing Diagram

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Replay

Step back

Swap ends

Mirror

Invert

Inside-out

Clear all

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Current Method: (Empty)

Click on (or beside) eyelets to begin creating your own lacing, or load a preset lacing method for experimentation.

If your experiments match one of the preset methods, Create-a-Lace will identify it – even if it's flipped left-to-right, upside-down, inside-out – or any combination!

Create-a-Lace Help

Lacing help

Faint red highlights show where the shoelace's “working end” can be fed.
Click directly ON an eyelet to feed the lace end IN through the eyelet.
Click BESIDE an eyelet to feed under the side and OUT through the eyelet.

Button help

Load...: Select from a list of preset lacing methods.
Replay: Animate the current lacing from start to finish.
Step back: Clear the most recent step to allow changes.
Swap ends: Swap the “static” and “working” ends.
Mirror: Flip the lacing from left to right.
Invert: Flip the lacing from top to bottom.
Inside-out: Flip the lacing inside-out.
Clear all: Restart with empty lacing.

Other help

Bookmark the page to save your creation.
Share the URL to share your creation.

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Existing Methods (62)

Two-One-Three Army Asterisk Bow Tie CAF Combat Boot Chevron C.I.A. (v1) C.I.A. (v2) C.I.A. (v3) C.I.A. (v4) C.I.A. (v5) C.I.A. (v6) C.I.A. (v7) Commando Corset Criss Cross Display Shoe Double Back (v1) Double Back (v2) Double Cross (v1) Double Cross (v2) Double Helix End Shortening (v1) End Shortening (v2) Escher Factory Footbag (v1) Footbag (v3) Footbag (v4) Gap (v1) Gap (v2) Gap (v3) Gippo Hash (v1) Hash (v2) Hash (v3) Hidden Knot Hiking / Biking Lattice (v1) Lattice (v2) Lattice (v3) Left Right Lightning One Handed Over Under Perspective Progressive (v1) Progressive (v2) Quick Tight Riding Boot Roman (v1) Roman (v2) Roman (v3) Sawtooth Shoe Shop (v1) Shoe Shop (v2) Starburst Straight Bar Straight Easy Straight European Supernova Winter Solstice

Pending Methods (55)

Barbed Wire Binary Supernova (v1) Binary Supernova (v2) Bunion Chucks Delilah Dense Hash Dense Lattice Diamond End Shortening Bow Tie End Shortening Roman Equality Euro Bar Figure 8 Flat Foot (v1) Flat Foot (v2) Focal Point Ian Infinity Interchange Lattice Bar MN Number 5 Ollie Paper Fan Percentage (v1) Percentage (v2) Quad Wrangle Quick Brown Fox Quick Shoe Shop Richard's Boot Scouts Side Knotted (v1) Side Knotted (v2) Side Strain (v1) Side Strain (v2) Simpsons Skewed Criss Cross Skewed Roman Spiral Square Wave Straight X Tatzenkreuz Tee Off Thorn Bush Triple X Twin Starburst X over X Zebra Untitled (1) Untitled (2) Untitled (3) Untitled (4) Untitled (5) Untitled (6)

Unavailable Methods (33)

Angled Checker Cascade Checkerboard Cyclone Fence Dense Checker Double Double Cross (v3) Double Sided Footbag (v2) Footbag (v5) Half & Half Hexagram Hill Valley Knotted Knotted Segment Ladder Lock (v1) Lock (v2) Lock (v3) Locked D.Helix Loop Back Pentagram (v1) Pentagram (v2) Quick Release Ladder Segmented Spider Web Train Track Twistie Ukrainian Waffle Woven Zig Zag Zipper

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Visitor Feedback

I love it how neatly laid out and lightweight the site is, the “Shoelace Knot Comparison” article (from which I learned a lot), the tools (“Create-a-Lace” and the shoelace length calculator – wow!), and, of course, the so comprehensive Granny Knot page – turns out I've been tying shoelaces incorrectly (and suffering from that :-) my whole life.

– Ilya, Moscow, Russia, May-2026

Why I didn't have your great “Create-a-lace” when I was young? It would save me a lot of time and nerves. I bet you know that story – you draw most perfect pattern on the paper and then when you try to make it, you see that it is not possible or its too complicated 😁.

– Dejan S., Jul-2022