And will it matter when everything comes crashing down? Few things have emerged unscathed from this era of relentless ...

The Berluti knot is the product of someone thinking about a knot's function, rather than just making it easy for kids to ...

The scientific evidence is now clear: we all tie our shoelaces wrong. America’s epidemic of untied shoes can be blamed in part on faulty shoe-tying technique, according to rigorous experiments in a ...

The bow often used for shoelaces is essentially a double knot, but using folded loops rather than straight ends for the second knot. Double knots come in two kinds: the reef knot and the granny. A ...

Ian's Shoelace Site, home of several inventive methods for shoe-tying, brings us the "Ian Knot," touted as the world's fastest shoelace knot. We've been tipped off on this several times before, so I ...

The difference between shoes tied with a balanced, neat, and self-tightening knot versus those tied with an unbalanced, sloppy, and loose knot, is all in how you make your first loop. Over at Runner's ...

If you're struggling with tying the kids' shoelaces as they return to school - or if you're having enough trouble tying your own - you'll want to see this. This simple video tutorial gives you a ...

You’re a pretty capable guy, right? You can put together a decent outfit, cook a good meal, charm the object of your affection at the bar—all crucial life skills for the functional adult human male.

Unlike most everyone else in the world, Burkard Polster gave this question a lot of thought, often at night. "Instead of counting sheep, I might count lacings," said Polster, a mathematician at Monash ...

Mechanical engineers at UC Berkeley are doing you a huge favor: They just completed a study on why your darn shoelaces keep coming untied. While they couldn’t identify every factor that causes the ...

Ian’s Shoelace Site claims to be the number one shoelace hobbyist site in the world, and says over 11,000 people visit every day. Whether you’re looking for the best knot for your running shoes or the ...

Oliver O’Reilly was teaching his daughter to tie her shoes when he realized something: he had no idea why shoelaces suddenly come undone. When he went looking for an answer, it was apparent that no ...