How often do you think about what these or those things are called, and why they were called that way? For example, you like sneakers and lace-up shoes. Wear them with pleasure every day. Before doing sports, tighten the laces more comfortably so that the foot in the shoes is securely fixed, and you feel comfortable and confident.
Oh what is that?
Most likely, the procedure for tying shoelaces is done by you completely unconsciously, on the machine. This happens every day, until at one point a small, but very unpleasant situation happens: the thing that helps to thread the shoelaces in the holes intended for them is destroyed, or simply flies off the tip of the lace and gets lost.
From this moment, lacing your favorite and irreplaceable pair of shoes turns into a game of nerves. The tattered lace does not want to "climb" into the hole intended for it. And you, quietly swearing and unsuccessfully poking a bare cord into the hole, you begin to think, what kind of thing is this? What is the name of the tip on the cord? This is a brilliant invention.
Just today we’ll talk about it
History still does not undertake to say with accuracy who became the brilliant man who gave humanity shoelaces. In ancient times, the Russians began to use something similar - long ropes made of bast or wool, and if very lucky, then made of leather. Such devices fixed bast shoes on their legs. From the fact that the leg was wrapped with such cords sometimes almost to the knees, as if braiding it, the name was given to these ropes - braid.
Presumably already in the 13th century, these parts for laces were invented. They fastened the ends of the lace and did not allow them to scrub and untangle. It turned out that lacing shoes with such things happened faster and without unnecessary nervous experiences.
It is a known fact that Christopher Columbus earned a lot on the sale of lanyard tips. The natives liked the shiny things so much that they carried gold in return. And the laces and their tips were used in their villages as an expensive and very beautiful decoration. And they did not care what the name of the tip on the cord.
Correct name
People working on the production of lace products claim that the correct name for this part is an eglet. Eglets need laces to secure their endings. Wicker products, clamped by such elements, will quickly lace up and last a long time.
Eglets can be not only metal, although they are the strongest and most convenient to use. Eglets are also made of plastic. Plastic products break much faster, crack and get lost. Usually this kind of trouble happens with cheap shoes. After all, respectively, and the laces in it (and eglets) are not of the best quality. If your eglets flew off, then self-made ones will come to the rescue: from paraffin, scotch tape. You can correct the situation by melting the ends of the laces.