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Original pattern socks · Netherlands

Every pattern here
is drawn for
this sock.

  • One repeat is 4 to 80 mm, and we print the number on every pattern.

  • 40%

    About 40% of it shows above a low-cut shoe. We tell you that too.

Browse all 43 patternsWhat flat view means

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An Inkstep pattern laid out flat as a design sheet. Thin vermilion measurement lines bracket one complete repeat of the pattern.
The bracket marks one repeat

This is the drawing, not a photograph of a sock. You can see the whole design before you decide, including the part a shoe will cover.

NoteEvery pattern on this site is drawn for these socks. We don't print anything we didn't make.
ColourPrinted and dyed socks can transfer colour when new, especially dark patterns on light footwear. Wash separately the first time.

The shelf

Sorted by how big
one repeat is

Not by colour, not by mood. Repeat size is what decides whether a pattern reads as a drawing or dissolves into a tone from across a room — so it is the first thing we sort by, and the cards below get larger as the repeat does.

Under 5 mmReads as a tone from across a room5 to 15 mmYou can see it is a pattern, not what it isOver 15 mmLegible as a drawing at walking distance
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Flat, then on the form

A leg is a cone.
Drawings do not
survive it intact.

Every pattern gets photographed twice: once laid flat as the drawing, once stretched over a sock form so you can see exactly where the curve compresses it. On a product page you can flip between the two.

How we photograph patterns
The same drawing, twice. Left: the design sheet with one repeat bracketed. Right: the sock, where that repeat is compressed by the curve of the leg.

Six lines

Each line asks
a different question

A pattern from the Geometric line
8 patterns

Geometric

Grids, bands and blocks. The repeat unit is the whole idea.

How big do you want the unit to be?

A pattern from the Nature Study line
8 patterns

Nature Study

Plants, birds and geology, drawn from observation rather than copied.

How dense do you want the drawing?

A pattern from the Type & Mark line
7 patterns

Type & Mark

Invented marks and invented characters. None of them mean anything.

How much should it look like writing?

A pattern from the Texture Illusion line
7 patterns

Texture Illusion

Printed patterns that imitate a texture. The texture is not really there.

Which material should it pretend to be?

A pattern from the Two-Tone line
7 patterns

Two-Tone

Two colours, split across the sock. Some pairs are deliberately not identical.

Where should the split fall?

A pattern from the Multipacks line
6 patterns

Multipacks

The same line, or the same pattern, more than once. Restock packs, not gift sets.

How many do you go through?

Where the patterns come from

We drew all of them.
That is the whole
policy.

Every one of the 43 patterns on this site was drawn for these socks. Each has a creation record — sketches, layer files and a date — and each was checked against a list of things we will not draw: trademarks, characters, team crests, real people, flags, religious imagery, and artwork still in copyright.

We do not accept customer-supplied artwork, and we do not describe our patterns as being connected to anything we have no right to invoke.

If you hold rights you believe one of our patterns infringes, tell us. We take it down first and look into it after.

Pattern origin and objections
Three stages of one pattern: a pencil sketch on tracing paper, the separated colour layers, and the finished printed sheet
Sketch, layers, finished sheet. We keep all three for every pattern.