Lacing Shoes

Contains over 100 × step-by-step shoe lacing tutorials, over 2,800 × shoe lacing photos, plus the interactive “Create-a-Lace” for designing your own lacing.

Shoe Lacing Methods

An extensive selection of 62 × shoe lacing tutorials, including traditional, decorative, practical and military methods.

Bi-Color Lacing Methods

Lacing shoes with two different colors is a great way to display country or team colors or simply to make use of the spare shoelaces that are supplied with many sneakers nowadays.

Lug Lacing Methods

Many shoes, sneakers and boots come with lugs or hooks instead of eyelets. This section presents a number of variations of regular Lacing Methods adapted to run through lugs or hooks.

U-Lace Methods

U-Lace are short, individual elasticized segments for simple, modular lacing – even in multiple colors. This section presents a number of variations of regular Lacing Methods adapted for use with U-Lace.

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.

2 Trillion Lacing Methods?

On an average shoe with six pairs of eyelets, there are almost 2 Trillion ways to feed a shoelace through those twelve eyelets! Impossible? This page shows the maths behind that extraordinary number.

Shoe Lacing Comparison

I've presented a number of different Shoe Lacing Methods on this website. This page compares them feature by feature to help you choose.

Shoe Lacing Ratings

All of the Shoe Lacing Methods on this site allow visitors to rate them from 1 to 5 stars (1=Awful to 5=Excellent). This page shows the results of those ratings.

Shoe Lacing Photos

Huge gallery of more than 2,800 photos of sneakers, shoes, boots & more with every imaginable combination of lacing methods – mostly contributed by this site's visitors.

Recent Visitor Feedback

“Straight European lacing,” which I grew up with, I consider an aesthetic mess, and it was hurting my feet—probably because of my anatomy.

I’ve adopted “Straight Bar Lacing” and “Straight Easy Lacing”. Both are far better in every way, even with odd numbers.

– Thomas B., Muenchen, Germany, Sep-2026

... still enjoying all the fun lacing methods with the step-by-step! Thanks for maintaining the website xx

– Michelle Y., Australia, Sep-2026

I think I bought your book for a gift a million years ago. I recently got some new shoes and wanted to use different laces that were too long but elastic so I can't shorten them. I tried a bunch of your styles and found one that worked. Thank you!

– Megan A., USA, Sep-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

I want to say I really love your lattice lacing method; it's my go-to style.

– Lulu V., Aug-2026

I just wanted to say that your website brought me joy this morning while trying to figure out the best way to lace my customised shoes.

I expected to trawl some bulls**t wikihow or ai “articles”, but your cleanly presented database of shoelaces and techniques to explore made me yearn for the old 90s internet.

Even to the point I shared it in the group chat I have with some friends!

You just single handedly made the internet worth it again today for me. 👍

– Atticus M., Jul-2026

Ladder and bar laced my canadian military surplus boots and solovair derby's respectively! thanks! i love this site's step selection thing and the history and functionality explanations!!!!!!!!! aaaa thank you

– Jaller F., Canada, Jul-2026

I discovered your website 5 years ago when I was in highschool, and it provided me with a really fun and unique way of expressing myself in my school uniform by changing out my laces.

Now I have laces of every colour and I swap them out to match my outfit every day on my way to Tafe, and I get so many compliments on the cool styles I lace them with.

I'm so grateful to you for your awesome website! It's laid out so efficiently and helpfully, and it's become an invaluable resource for me!

I had orientation day of my new course yesterday and I had 3 people comment on my purple and blue hash style in my boots, which is always such a mood lifter and a great conversation starter, and today I'm rocking the lattice style in my vans, which is so easy to take on and off while also looking awesome.

I didn't really have anything to say beyond just wanting to express my gratitude and admiration for what you provide for us!

– James B., Sydney, Australia, Jul-2026