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.

Shoe Lacing Methods

An extensive selection of 62 × shoe lacing tutorials, including 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

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

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 Shoe Lacing Methods on this site have the facility for visitors to give them a rating from 1 to 5 stars (1=Awful to 5=Excellent). Here, you can view the results of those ratings.

Shoe Lacing Photos

Huge gallery of more than 2,000 photos of sneakers, shoes, boots & more with every imaginable combination of lacing methods – all contributed by site visitors.

Lacing Shoes Feedback

I'm only a knot newbie, but my dad recently handed me down some shoes because I needed some proper shoes for athletics. As a deeply frugal person, I thought it was best to help make them fit for my slightly smaller feet instead of shopping for new shoes. Learning better lacing, including the knot itself (which is what your site focuses on), has basically eliminated heel slippage and a litany of other potential health hazards.

– Yannis A., Aug-2019

I Just wanted to drop you a note to say thank you for your site.

I discovered it a few years ago now and it's opened my eyes to what's possible with shoe lacing in an extremely practical and attractive way. I've had shoes that didn't fit quite right become comfortable multiple times. I've been able to choose lacing schemes that fit the look of my shoes or how I want them to feel when I wear them. It's been a wonderful little enrichment to my life.

Thank you.

– Arthur B., New Zealand, Sep-2018