How to tie & clean your shoe laces

Straight Bar Lacing Style

1. Insert the shoelace into the first eyelets with the ends down
2. Pull both ends to make sure the shoelace ends are even
3. Run the left end straight up on the inside and then straight across the first two eyelets
4. Run both ends straight up the inside, each skipping one eyelet and emerging two eyelets higher up
5. Repeat the last two steps until you reach the last eyelets

Criss Cross Lacing 

1. Start by putting the laces in the bottom two eyelets facing up and away from the tongue. Make sure the lace is flat we don’t want it to twist up. 
2. Weave the laces in and out of the other eyelets, crisscrossing as you go, make sure the laces are facing up and don’t have any knots or twists in them. 
3. The pattern should be in through the top of the eyelet, across the tongue, and back in through the eyelet on the other side. 
4. Keep going all the way up the tongue, until you get to the last eyelets
5. Go up and out of the eyelets on both sides. 

Straight-lace Method

1. Using the right end, insert the lace into the opposite hole in a straight line. 
2. Bring it out from the bottom and insert it (from the bottom again) through the next hole. Moving diagonally up one and then straight across the other. 
3. Continue moving it horizontally across the holes until you reach the last hole and then tie your two remaining ends together. 

Sperry laces

1. You want to get hold of one of the lace ends that is coming out the top of one eyelet and make a small loop. Hold the loop together using your fingers. 
2. With the remainder of the lace wrap it around the lop neatly going upwards creating a coil around the loop. 
3. Once your lace is coming to the end, thread the end through the loop and pull tight. 
4. You will be able to slip your boat shoes on and off now. 

Tips: How to clean your laces

1. You can put them in the washing machine if they are cotton or other washable material such as nylon, but place them in a mesh bag or pillowcase. 
2. Secondly, if you bob the laces into a bowl or cup and add a small among of hot water. Get something long such as the end of a toothbrush and swirl the laces around teasing out the lose dirt. If the laces are white you can add a small amount of bleach and let them soak for a couple of minutes. Don’t get the bleach on your hands or fingers because it can aggravate your skin. 
3. Or alternatively, you can just buy yourself some new laces, there's a full range at allsole.

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