Ian's Shoelace Site - Shoe Lacing Methods: Quote: "How many possible ways are there to lace an average shoe? This simple question, when answered with mathematics, results in some surprisingly big numbers - on an average shoe with six pairs of eyelets, there are 1,961,990,553,600 ways to feed a shoelace though those 12 eyelets. That's almost 2 TRILLION possibilities! However, many of these can't be considered "Lacing Methods" because they don't even fulfil the primary purpose of holding the shoe closed, whilst many are hopelessly tangled messes, and many are minor, irrelevant variations. Nonetheless, even with real-world constraints , there are countless possible lacing methods. In this section, I'll present a (somewhat more realistic) few methods that I consider worthy of devoting the time required to create instructions, either because they have a particular benefit or just because I like the way they look." (via DD) Link
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