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Double Lacing
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Another way of ending up with two colours is to interweave two laces up the shoe, ending up with four lace ends,
which can then be tied creatively. It's a great way to display your country or team colours.
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The four ends of the two shoelaces end up at the top of the shoe.
The colorful new sneakers that we bought for my partner, Inge, came with Double Lacing!
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Lacing Technique:
1. Start with two different coloured laces, each shorter than the original laces from that shoe.
2. Feed one lace (purple in my diagram) straight across the bottom and emerge from the bottom two eyelets.
3. Cross the ends over and, skipping one set of eyelets, feed under and emerge from the third set of eyelets.
4. Continue crossing over and going up two sets of eyelets at a time until you reach either the top or second from
top set of eyelets.
5. Take the other lace (orange in my diagram) and, starting from the second set of eyelets, repeat steps (2)
through (4) until the remaining eyelets are laced with the second lace.
Features:
Decorative look
Creative options
Needs new laces
Comparative Length (each lace) = 57%
Laced area uses less (about −43%)
Shorter laces needed (about −20%)
Lengthens lace ends (about +39%)
More details
NOTE:
If your shoes have odd numbers of eyelet pairs (eg. 7 pairs = 14 eyelets), one lace will pass through more
eyelets than the other. The two laces will therefore need to be different Lengths. |
Tying Off:
When finished, this method ends up with four lace ends at the top of the shoe. Here's where you have plenty of
creative options for tying your shoes:
- Tie two knots, one using the ends across the top set of eyelets, the other with the ends across the
second from top set of eyelets.
- Tie two knots, only instead of tying across the shoe, tie them up the shoe - one knot on the left side
using the two left ends and the other knot on the right side using the two right ends.
- Take the two ends at each side and hold them together like a single lace, then tie only one knot using those
double-thickness laces. (Works best with flat laces).
- Tie only the top ends, whilst the second from top ends are simply tucked into the shoe.
These are only some of the possibilities. Your only limit is your imagination and your definitions of
"decorative" and "messy".
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Variations:
The above technique is effectively a double variation of Criss Cross Lacing,
which is only one of several lacing methods that work well with two different coloured laces. Several other lacing
methods apply themselves equally well to Double Lacing, such as this double variation of
Hash Lacing (see photo at right), which can even be woven to look like a bi-colour
Lattice Lacing..
In most cases, you can turn a normal lacing method into a double lacing method by following the instructions for
one lace using the odd numbered pairs of eyelets (ie. 1st, 3rd, 5th pair), then the other lace using the even
numbered eyelet pairs (ie. 2nd, 4th, 6th pair, etc).
Here's a list of lacing methods that combine well with Double Lacing:
Here's some photos that visitors have sent of double lacing variations:
(Click any of the following photos to view an enlargement on the Lacing Photos page).
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This page last updated: 29-Sep-2008. Copyright © 2004-2008 by
Ian W. Fieggen. All rights reserved.
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