How to Make Cool Designs With Shoe Laces

Update your look by tying shoelaces in a new way.

A quick and easy way to make your outfit stand out is to lace your shoes up in a nontraditional fashion. You can make any pair of shoes look cool just by switching the normal right-over-left look for something more complicated, more detailed or just more unusual than the everyday shoelace look. To take your shoe tying skills to the next level, you will need to learn some basic techniques for tying your laces. Then you can experiment and add some twists to your own unique styles.

Instructions

Bars

1. Make bars across your shoes with your laces. Feed the shoelace into the bottom lace holes (the ones near the toe end of the shoe). You want them inside the shoe, with equal length on both sides. With the toe of the shoe facing away from you, take the left lace and run it up the inside of the shoe to get to the next hole.

2. Stick the left lace out of the second hole and run it across to the right side of the shoe. Thread it through the second hole on the right side.

3. Take the right lace, which is still inside the first hole, and run it up the inside of the shoe to the third hole on the right. Pull it through the hole and run it directly across the shoe and insert it in the third hole on the left side. Run the left lace from the second hole on the right through the fourth hole on the right. Cross it over to the fourth hole on the left. Run the right lace from the third hole on the left up to the fifth hole on the left and cross over to the fifth hole on the right. Depending on how many hole eyelets you have, continue this all the way up the shoe, tying a knot when you reach the top. You now have straight bars running over the top of your shoe.

Lattice

1. Feed the shoelace through the bottom lace holes at the toe end of the shoe. The lace should go straight across and come out of the shoe, with equal length on both sides.

2. Grasp both sides of the lace and cross them. Then skip two holes and insert the laces into the fourth eyelets up (the left lace on the right side and the right lace on the left side).

3. Run the laces up the inside of the shoe and stick them through the fifth holes.

4. Take the lace in the fifth hole on the left and cross it down back toward the toe of the shoe. Insert it in the second hole on the right side. Take the lace in the fifth hole on the right, cross it down over the left and insert it into the second hole on the left side.

5. Run both laces up the inside of the shoe and through the third holes. Pull them through the third holes, cross the laces then insert them under and through the sixth holes at the top.

Loop Back

1. Feed the shoelace through the bottom lace holes at the toe end of the shoe. The lace should go straight across and come out of the shoe, with equal length on both sides.

2. Grasp the left lace. Insert it into every hole up the left side of the shoe, in a spiral motion. Make the loops big enough to reach halfway across the shoe toward the right side.

3. Take the right lace and stick it in the first loop you made with the left lace Then bring it back to the right side and insert it into the first empty hole. Repeat this step all the way up the shoe, so that the right lace is looped around the left lace and they grab each other like chain links.

Tips & Warnings

• Try using different colored laces to make your style even cooler.

References

• Ian's shoelace Site: Straight (Bar) Lacing
• Ian's shoelace Site: Lattice Lacing
• Ian's shoelace Site: Loop Back Lacing