Welcome to Ian's Shoelace Site

Fun, fashion & science in the Internet's #1 website about shoelaces – and home of the Ian Knot, the world's fastest shoelace knot. If you want to lace shoes, tie shoes or learn about shoelaces, “Ian's Shoelace Site” is the place!

Table of Contents

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.

Tying Shoes Contains 20 × shoelace knots, including my world's fastest “Ian Knot”, plus important info on preventing the “Granny Knot”, which causes shoelaces to sit crooked and come undone.

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, reviews, Q&As and more.

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 various ways that you, too, can support Ian.

Connect With Professor Shoelace Contact Ian Fieggen via e-mail or connect with “Professor Shoelace” via YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Gfycat or RSS feed.

Search This Site Looking for something? This website has more than 250 pages – which can be daunting to wade through! Search the whole of Ian's Shoelace Site using Google Custom Search.

Latest Photo 17-Sep-2020 – Shoe Lacing Photo of the Week Black Drew Flares laced with patterned blue & red combination of Double Sided Lacing and Ladder Lacing (from an anonymous contributor). Two quite different looks with twin bows on one shoe and no bows on the other. More Shoe Lacing Photos

Latest Animation 28-Aug-2020 – Ian's Laces App demo Short demo of my recently updated Ian's Laces App for Android, to which I've just started adding Shoelace Knots. Download & share NOTE: This animation may be downloaded (eg. by long-press or right-click) and shared freely. Be quick and get it while you can!

Latest Video 21-Jul-2020 – How to Tighten Shoelaces Added YouTube video showing a dozen different shoe lacing methods with their own particular way of tightening – some of which are fast and efficient, some slow and tedious. Watch video here Watch on YouTube

What's New?

Updated “Ian's Laces” app for Android 09-Sep-2020 – Added another 5 × Shoelace Knots to my “Ian's Laces” app for Android, bringing the total number of included knots to 16. Only six more to go!

Website passes 50 million visits 08-Sep-2020 – Another milestone for Ian's Shoelace Site. After a small jump in traffic last month (thanks to a mention on ycombinator.com), the website finally saw its fifty millionth visit!

Updated “Ian's Laces” app for Android 28-Aug-2020 – After a couple of months of programming plus re-mastering knot diagrams in high definition, I've finally added the first 11 out of 22 × Shoelace Knots to my “Ian's Laces” app for Android.

Updated all YouTube videos 07-Aug-2020 – Major update to all YouTube videos. Each now includes “chapters”, which allow fast and easy skipping through the video, plus each has improved thumbnail images and subtitles.

Updated “Interviews & Articles” 27-Jun-2020 – Added transcript of a lengthy on-air interview from back in 2006 on ABC Radio (Australia).

Recent Website Feedback I threw a bit into your tip jar; hope it helps. Though I don't visit often, fieggen.com is uniroinically one of my favourite corners of the internet. Low on the modern-web-BS, you've got the thing you like and you're gonna talk aaalll about it, and I like how you accept corrections (like the bit about discovering that the “Ian [Secure] Knot” isn't a new knot). – Jack K., Jan-2020 I'm using your lace site for a long time, almost about ten years and I absolutely love it. I cannot show how happy I am to come across such a wonderful and useful, purely informative website. – Sinan C., Turkey, Nov-2019 I stumbled across your shoelace site and was frankly astonished at the level of detail and effort. I would go so far as to say this website serves as one of the best compilation of knowledge regarding shoelaces the World has ever seen. – Ethan G., Jul-2019 Just wanted to say thank you for your shoelace site. It's so well documented! And organized. AND thorough! It's like the encyclopeadia britannica of shoelaces :) – Philip B., Jun-2019