Lacing Shoes

Shoe Lacing Methods

This section presents a fairly extensive selection of 58 × shoe lacing tutorials. They include traditional and alternative lacing methods that are either widely used, have a particular feature or benefit, or that I just like the look of.

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 instead of eyelets. This section presents a number of variations of regular Lacing Methods that are suitable for shoes with lugs.

U-Lace Methods

Replacing shoelaces with U-Lace no-tie laces converts the lacing into short, individual elasticized segments. This section presents a number of variations of regular Lacing Methods that have been adapted for use with U-Lace.

Create-a-Lace

Experimenting with shoe lacing methods on a real shoe can be tedious. Create-a-Lace is a "virtual diagram" that makes it so much easier. Your creations can even be shared with others by simply sharing the URL.

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 lacing methods on this site have the facility for visitors to give them a rating from 1 to 5 stars. Here, you can view the results of those ratings and compare the popularity of the various methods.

Shoe Lacing Photos

Here you can see photos of all sorts of trendy shoes, laced with various lacing methods, that have been sent to me by site visitors. If you're after some lacing inspiration, this is the place!