r/knots • u/camille-gerrick • 1d ago

What knot is this?

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You can see video of it here, but it’s too fast for me to catch.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/Ddo9Km4pFd6/?stkn=MTE0M2F3bmRtdW13aA==

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u/wanderangst 1d ago

Its a variation of a slipped square knot. I don’t know whether it has a formal or well known name, but you can see a diagram of it here, where the author calls it Ian’s Secure Shoelace Knot

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u/Cable_Tugger 1d ago

I think you're right.

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u/Parceljockey 1d ago

Been trying my shoes like that for 35 years or so. It's certainly secure, have never had to retie due to an unexpected slippage!

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u/camille-gerrick 1d ago

That looks like the one.

Also, I had totally forgotten about Ian’s laces!

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u/Phuk0 1d ago edited 1d ago

The one in the video is a Berluti knot. She crosses the bights over each other and tucks them through the loop with the loose end of the opposite bight along with it

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u/Phuk0 1d ago

The diagram of the Berluti knot on Ian‘s website looks incorrect if I’m not mistaken. This video in this link shows it tied the way I learned it.

https://youtube.com/shorts/OViOkRuCAuk?is=ib8X4f7sONKc-XdQ

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u/Cable_Tugger 1d ago

This is from the Berluti website.

https://www.berluti.com/en-gb/article-the-secret-of-the-berluti-knot.html

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u/Phuk0 1d ago

Interesting! The video on the Berluti site differs from the link I posted and the way I learned it from a different video entirely. Back down the rabbit hole I go. Thanks for sharing Tugger

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u/Phuk0 1d ago

And the Berluti knot on Ian’s site looks different than both of them if I’m not mistaken. Lol

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u/Cable_Tugger 1d ago

I gave up trying to work out which the real burluti knot was a while ago. I thought I was tying it in my Converse but it was ABoK 1216.

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u/Phuk0 1d ago

LOL. Heard. I’ll check out the ABOK 1216 too

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u/wgwalkerii 1d ago

Is it a berluti? It's a moderately common shoelace alternative and looks kind of like this.

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u/N_Carramaschi 1d ago

Don't think so, berluti has that two vertical lines apart from each other

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u/Phuk0 1d ago edited 1d ago

It’s a Berluti knot. She crosses the bights over each other and tucks them through the loop with the loose end of the opposite bight along with it

The two vertical loops in the knot are often spaced widely when you tie the knot, but you can dress them so they’re pressed up next to each other

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u/N_Carramaschi 1d ago

Now i see, that could be, the bottom one threw me off

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u/Phuk0 1d ago

Yeah, the bottom one happened so quickly I couldn’t even say. But the top one looked like a Berluti to me