Ian's Shoelace Site

Hi Ian! We are daughter and mother from Italy and we loved your website! I stumbled on it by chance and showed it to her. She is also a teacher, an art teacher, so she laughed out loud when we read the last part of all the ways you tried to monetize this site – she relates to your words xD. Thank you for existing and we'll be practicing Ian knot, showing it off to anyone whom we'll see in the next days!! Thanks again, and good evening!

– Anna L., Italy, Sep-2026

The secure shoelace knot is life changing. It hasn’t come undone a single time since I started using it, and it is barely any harder to untie than a regular shoelace knot.

– Samuel M., USA, Sep-2026

I’ve been really frustrated with my laces coming loose and wanted a knot to secure them. My search returned the berluti knot.

So I watched several videos on Youtube and couldn’t follow any of them. On all of them the lace was obscured at some point and my hands and brain had too much fine motor action to deal with. So I searched for “diagrammatic explanation of the berluti knot” and you came top.

Your flip book is so easy to follow especially with the lace having a yellow and blue end. I can’t believe how easy it was to follow your instructions with immediate success.

Thank you so much for this. What a beautifully simple and elegant solution presented in such an easy to follow style.

– Chris P., UK, Sep-2026

Ian! I've been using your secure knot for close to 10 years now and have informed others of its superiority. Not once has this knot come undone, keep on keeping on brother.

– Andrew B., Pennsylvania, USA, Sep-2026

Your instructions helped my daughter solve her impossible to tie shoelaces problem!! Would never have figured it out without you. Thanks for sharing this!

– Rolland H., USA, Sep-2026

I found this website via the Vintage Website (a website that sends you to long-standing random websites) and I was like “Wow! What perfect timing!” because in a week or so I'll be receiving some nice new shoes!

I am very excited to try out these different ways to tie the laces. Honestly, I have never even considered that there would be so many ways to do so. As an artist, this has really opened my eyes on as to how I can view the world and what I'm able to do with it. I will make a piece dedicated to shoelaces just for this – I feel very inspired! I haven't finished reading everything yet, but I'm learning a lot already; things can be so much more efficient with the right technique it seems.

Thank you for your website, it is so wonderfully made and I wish only great things for it's maintenance and longevity!

– Aurae, The Philippines, Aug-2026

Dear Ian, your website was recommended to me and I wanted to let you know what a joy it is in this overcomplicated world. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.

– Rose, Bristol, UK, Aug-2026

I had a pair of docs and got silver fat laces for them, but normal criss cross lacing made them tighter than I liked and left the ends short, while looking at lacings I found that the Starburst lengthens the ends and decided to try it. Wow this lacing not only looks great with my solar flare docs design, but functions great as well. The lace ends are much longer and usable, and the pressure on my foot is relieved quite a bit, on top of that I dont need to loosen the lace to get the boot on, just simply slip it on and tie a knot. When im done, I untie, and it slips right off. Perfect.

– Lenny JG, Nevada, USA, Aug-2026