Having seen many of these offered for sale over the years, I've wondered the same thing. Doesn't seem like it would be too hard to lace them correctly. But every single one I've seen has been laced this way (the wrong way). I don't know whether they all come out of the same workshop, of whether they're copies of each other by different makers.
(I haven't been counting, but it's surely more than a dozen I've seen.)
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