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Welcome to Ian's Shoelace Site!
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Fun, fashion & science in this quirky site about shoelaces. Whether you want to learn to lace shoes, tie shoelaces,
stop shoelaces from coming undone, calculate shoelace lengths or even repair aglets, Ian's Shoelace Site has the
answer!
You can find out more About This Site, or you can dive right in below.
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Table of Contents
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Lacing Shoes
Are all of your shoes, sneakers and boots still laced up the way they were when you bought them? This section
presents some of the many fascinating ways of lacing, either for different functions or just for appearances. Why
not take the plunge? Whip out those laces and re-do them to suit your needs or personality. |
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Tying Shoelaces
Most people learn to tie their shoelaces around the age of five. Why then would anyone older than that visit a web
site about tying shoelaces? Whether you're a parent, teacher, occupational therapist, academic, knot enthusiast, or
just after some self-help, there's something for you. |
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Slipping Shoelaces?
Do your shoelaces always come undone? If so, you're probably tying a "Granny Knot", and one simple change to your
technique will result in a balanced knot that sits straight and stays secure. |
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Crooked Bows?
Do your shoelace bows sit vertically instead of across the shoe? Do your hair ribbons refuse to sit straight? What
about crooked bows on wedding invitations? All of these can be fixed with one simple change to your tying technique,
creating a "balanced" knot that sits straight. |
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Shoelace Lengths
Many shoes nowadays come with shoelaces that are way too long. On the other hand, breaking a shoelace can leave it
too short. Calculating the correct shoelace length for a particular shoe with a particular lacing method involves
some pretty complicated mathematics. This section presents a Web-Based Calculator plus the underlying Shoelace Length Formulas
to allow manual calculation. |
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Shoelace Tips
This section covers two meanings of the word "Tips". Firstly, there's "Shoelace Hints" for teaching children, for
sportspeople, disabled people and everyone. Secondly, there's info on "Shoelace Ends" (= Aglets), including how to
repair or replace them. |
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Shoelace Marketplace - NEW!
Looking to buy shoelaces or related items? Ian's Shoelace Site doesn't yet have a web store, but it does have a
marketplace, where you'll find selected merchants of shoelaces, accessories, gadgets, books, teaching aids, and
anything else I've been able to track down. |
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Shoelace Polls
Here's your chance to take part in some web polls on your preferred methods of lacing or tying your shoelaces.
Hopefully these polls will give us some picture of which methods are the most popular, as well as showing whether
this site has taught visitors something new. |
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Frequently Asked Questions (F.A.Q.)
You'll find the answers to Frequently Asked Questions here, mainly for the benefit of people typing those questions
into search engines. It's also worth looking here before you send me a question for which I've already posted an
answer. |
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Shoelace News Stories
Shoelaces are common, useful items. Here's some links to recent news stories, where you'll discover some of the
good and bad, happy and sad events either caused by or involving shoelaces. |
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Shoelace & Knotting Links
Here's some links to other shoelace and knot related web sites. Providing links is good "Netiquette", enabling the
Internet to effectively become its own index. |
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What's New?
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21-Dec-2008 - Added some
Sneak Previews.
Recently I collaborated with the folks at Gola to produce a bonus "Art of Lacing" booklet, which is included free
with their newly released
Gola by eBoy trainers. I've added three sneak-previews from this booklet to my
Shoe Lacing Photos page. |
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03-Dec-2008 - Updated
Shoe Lacing Photos.
Added option to filter photos by "Best Photo of Each Lacing Method". This allows a quick scan through one
representative photo of each lacing method rather than wading through hundreds of similar photos. |
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26-Nov-2008 - Added
Hexagram Lacing.
This purely decorative lacing forms a hexagram, or six pointed star. This geometric symbol has been used for
centuries in various cultures and religions, most notably as the Jewish "Star of David". |
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26-Nov-2008 - Added
Pentagram Lacing.
This purely decorative lacing forms a pentagram, or five pointed star. Besides the "magical" associations, solid
five pointed stars are found on many flags, most notably the fifty stars on the U.S. flag. |
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Shoe Lacing Photo of the Week
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White Converse Double-Uppers with black trim and black combination of
Zipper Lacing and
Bow Tie Lacing.
Photo sent to me by Lorna B.
Two very bold looking methods in black on white.
More Lacing Photos. |
This page last updated: 05-Jan-2009. Copyright © 2003-2009 by
Ian W. Fieggen. All rights reserved.
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