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If you want to lace shoes, tie shoes or learn about shoelaces - this is the place! Welcome! Professor Shoelace (pic) G'day everyone, Ian Fieggen here, also known as "Professor Shoelace". I'm a real human living in Melbourne, Australia. This website has no "A.I." content - it's all built with "H.I." plus Human Effort over more than two decades. Welcome to "Ian's Shoelace Site" - made by one human, for all humans. Table of Contents Lacing (icon) Lacing Shoes Contains over 100 x step-by-step shoe lacing tutorials, over 2,700 x shoe lacing photos, plus the interactive "Create-a-Lace" for designing your own lacing. Tying (icon) Tying Shoes Contains 25 x shoelace knots (including my world's fastest "Ian Knot" ), plus info on tying correctly so that they sit straight and stay securely tied - yet can be untied without jamming. Learn (icon) Learn About Shoelaces Heaps of knowledge about shoelaces, including their construction, length calculations - even what the tips are called, as well as Ian's interviews, articles, Q&As and more. About (icon) About Information about this website and the site's author, Ian Fieggen - including Ian's contact details. Also info on this site's sponsors plus ways that you, too, can support Ian. Connect (icon) Connect With Professor Shoelace Contact Ian Fieggen via e-mail or connect with "Professor Shoelace" via YouTube, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook or RSS feed. Search (icon) Search This Site Looking for something? This website has more than 300 pages - which can be daunting to wade through! Search the whole of Ian's Shoelace Site using Google Custom Search. Latest Photo 01-Feb-2026 Today's shoe lacing photo was contributed by Guillaume R. in Feb-2026. Tan boots with white trim laced with black & white Over Under Lacing + Double Helix Lacing. Front view of Guillaume's lacing comparison, this time with the shoelaces tightened and knotted. Shoe lacing photo More Shoe Lacing Photos What's New? Ian on mic (pic) Updated "Interviews & Articles" 22-Jan-2025 - Added Ian's interview from 2018 about modern shoelace alternatives, plus an interview from 2020 about lacing, knots and my "Professor Shoelace" alias. PUMA (icon) Updated "Interviews & Articles" 04-Dec-2025 - During Australia's marriage equality debate, PUMA engaged me to create the "Equality Knot", then sent a film crew to shoot this "content piece" video. Inverted Pentagram Lacing (icon) Updated "Pentagram Lacing" 02-Dec-2025 - Following a visitor request, I added diagrams for the inverted variation of Pentagram Lacing for 7, 6 and 5 pairs of eyelets. Lacing methods (icon) Updated "Shoe Lacing Methods" 28-Nov-2025 - Following a suggestion from a website visitor, I added buttons to filter by either "Shortening" or "Lengthening" methods. The Stuph File (icon) Updated "Interviews & Articles" 10-Nov-2025 - Added Ian's interview from Dec-2016 with The Stuph File about my Shoelace Site, from its humble beginnings through to the extensive and respected website that it is today. BBC (icon) Updated "Interviews & Articles" 06-Nov-2025 - Added Ian's interview from Sep-2015 with BBC Radio 4, which coincided with "back to school" in the UK, covered teaching kids to tie their shoes for the first time. Lacing (diagram) Added "Lug Woven Lacing" 29-Oct-2025 - This website has long included "Woven Lacing" for shoes with eyelets. A recent visitor-contributed photo prompted me to add Lug Woven Lacing for shoes with lugs. Shoelace Weave (diagram) Updated "Shoelace Construction" 14-Oct-2025 - Added an interactive Shoelace Weave Diagram, which allows you to experiment with creating shoelace weave patterns thread-by-thread. Recent Visitor Feedback Can't believe that I've been tying my shoelaces wrongly for 50 years! Never too late to learn I guess... many thanks - Mike B., UK, Feb-2026 A lesson that will at least benefit Mike for the next 50-odd years - and which prompted a donation in gratitude. Thanks, Mike! - Ian Fieggen Tonight I was having a grand time looking through your shoe lacing tutorials for fun, and then I saw that you actually invented my favorite way to tie my shoes and show off a little bit! I yelled "HE INVENTED THIS KNOT? I KNOW THAT KNOT!!!" (and scared my cat a little bit hahahaha) Anyways just wanted to thank you for having a great website, I'm really enjoying it and can't wait to try out some of the decorative lacing on my boots! - Selkie, Los Angeles, USA, Feb-2026 When the Canadian Forces' lacing instructions were at best a 2/10 I got referenced to this site and never looked back, thank you. - Andres S., Canada, Jan-2026 Andres was also appreciative enough to send a donation - thanks! - Ian Fieggen Love the site! Been checking it on occasion for years, and I have been using the Ian [k]not for so long I don't remember how to tie the normal bow. Hadn't occurred to me I could donate until I saw Chris Person's article. - Baynard N., USA, Jan-2026 Kind comments plus acts of generosity like Baynard's are the catalyst that has kept me going all these years. Thanks, Baynard! - Ian Fieggen I've been a big fan of your site for years though haven't visited for a while. I was sad to hear in an article on Gizmodo that your site income is difficult to maintain, so this is my modest thanks for your site's great content. - Liam G., UK, Jan-2026 Liam's "modest thanks" consisted of a nice donation. My humble thanks in return, Liam! - Ian Fieggen If you'd also like to send feedback, please Contact Ian. "Must See" Links Ian Knot (animation) Ian Knot Tie your shoes in a split second with my "Ian Knot", the World's Fastest Shoelace Knot. Granny knot (pic) Granny Knot Check you're not tying a "Granny Knot", which sits crooked and comes loose. Support Ian Sponsors Ironlace (ad) Big Laces (ad) Kicks Display Cases (ad) Kicks Shoelaces (ad) Mad Dog Laces (ad) * Prev. Page * Top * Next Page This page last updated: 01-Feb-2026. Copyright (c) 2003-2026 by Ian W. Fieggen. All rights reserved. Website created by Ian Fieggen (aka. "Professor Shoelace"), inventor of the Ian Knot. Ian's Other Websites: Software Site (icon)SoftwareGraphics Site (icon)GraphicsIan's Site (icon)IanChris' site (icon)ChrisFamily tree (icon)Tree