This process allows any digital image to be applied directly into the fabric of your socks, maintaining flexibility and comfort while maximising visual impact.
Using a heat press process, we transfer your design to your sock in two halves. You can choose to have your design applied on the left and right sides of the sock leg, or the front and rear. This creates a wrap-around effect.
The designated sublimation panel is limited to a 4 x 4.5 inch area.
On the Mid, Crew and Knee High styles, your design is applied to the lower calf. On the Low style your design is applied to the top of the foot.
Just want your socks clean with a small custom touch? Embroidery might be your solution. Embroidery stitches your logo directly into the sock base and works best with simple logos and bold text.
Logo sizes are limited to 2" x 2" in size, and 6 total colours.
Your logo is applied to a single side of the sock leg, either inside leg, outside leg, front or rear.
A knitted design utilises the same raw materials to integrate your design directly into the sock base.
Knitting works best with simple images and bold text.
We convert your artwork into a simplified resolution (6 colours max) which is then mapped to our available yarn colours.
You can select to apply your direct knit design to any area of the sock leg.
There's a few things to consider when choosing between a printed (sublimated) design or a knitted sock design, determining how your design integrates into the sock base. We can produce mockups to show what your socks might look like as either a printed or knitted design.
And don't worry, we'll always steer you towards the best decoration method for your design 😁
Logos can obviously vary greatly, but in most cases we find they can look great in either format as long as the size is large enough.
Printed logos can be scaled without any loss in quality, however knitted logos will lose clarity as they get smaller.
Printed logos can have unlimited colours whereas knitted logos are limited to 6 colours.
Curves can be rendered smoothly when printed, but when rendered through the knitting process curved lines will have a "stepped" gradient, which will increase with the angle of the curve.
Both methods will appear smooth from a distance.
Similar to curved lines, diagonal lines are rendered in tiny "steps" when applied through the knitting process, however the end result can be similar to sublimation when viewed from a distance.