7 ms·
I still cannot understand the way people explain tying shoes. What's with the "wrapping the unlooped lace around the looped lace"? I'm trying to visualize that.
by kaetemi 3y ago
I still cannot understand the way people explain tying shoes. What's with the "wrapping the unlooped lace around the looped lace"? I'm trying to visualize that. Makes absolutely no sense to me.
It's just an ordinary "square" knot with the laces both folded in half in the last part of making the knot.
- pbhjpbhj 3y agoYes, and you can make it by making two bights (folds in the string, aka "bunny ears") or just by making the folds as you push the string through the aperture formed by crossing the strings. I don't really understand why people like the misnaming of the square knot/reef knot as the "Ian knot" either. To me that confuses things, as if it's not just a technique.