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Double Back Lacing
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Although terribly awkward to tighten, this method looks interesting, holds very firmly, and can also be used if
you're desperate to shorten long lace ends. There's two variations, one for shorter laces, one for longer laces.
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Method 1 - Shorter Laces
Faint sections are underneath
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Lacing Technique - Method 1 - Shorter Laces:
1. The lace runs straight across the second set of eyelets from the top of the shoe (grey section).
2. Cross the ends over and feed into the fourth set of eyelets, skipping the third set.
3. Continue down the shoe two sets of eyelets at a time.
4. At the bottom, run the laces vertically between the bottom and second from bottom eyelets.
5. Double back and work your way back up the shoe through the vacant sets of eyelets.
Comparative Length = 106%
Laced area uses more (about +6%)
Longer laces needed (about +3%)
Shortens lace ends (about −5%)
More details
NOTE:
This is the
Neater of the two methods because, unlike the method below, it doesn't have a bottom crossover. This also means
that it consumes less lace and therefore doesn't shorten the lace ends by quite as much. |
Method 2 - Longer Laces
This photo of double back laced Converse All Stars was sent to me by Bandit1980.
More Lacing Photos |
Lacing Technique - Method 2 - Longer Laces:
1. The lace runs straight across the second set of eyelets from the top of the shoe (grey section).
2. Cross the ends over and feed into the fourth set of eyelets, skipping the third set.
3. Continue down the shoe two sets of eyelets at a time. Up to this point, this method is identical to the above
method.
4. At the bottom, cross the ends over instead of running vertically as in the above method.
5. Double back and work your way back up the shoe through the vacant sets of eyelets.
Comparative Length = 116%
Laced area uses more (about +16%)
Longer laces needed (about +7%)
Shortens lace ends (about −14%)
More details
NOTE:
This is the
Messier of the two methods because, unlike the above method, it has a bottom crossover. This also means that
it consumes extra lace and therefore shortens the lace ends by a little more.
Features:
Stays very tight
Terribly awkward
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This page last updated: 27-Nov-2008. Copyright © 2003-2008 by
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