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Vodde is the first truly circular sock brand in the Netherlands! We make new socks from Vodde. Nicely locally developed and made, just in Tilburg, the heart of textiles. With our unique Vodde yarn, made from 100% recycled discarded textiles,...

Entrepreneurship is pioneering. With the feet in the clay. It's taking profits and taking losses. Push yourself hard and celebrate your successes just as hard. Countless entrepreneurs in Tilburg also sit and board that addictive rollercoaster every day. Make it...

In the north of Tilburg, right next to the TextielMuseum, you will find the beating heart of Vodde . This young sock manufacturer gives old textiles - rags - a new life by turning them into all kinds of quality...

What entrepreneur wouldn't want to come up with a solution or product that no one had thought of yet? In this series, entrepreneurs talk about the gap in the market that they discovered and their path to it. This time:...

“Rags, rags, who has rags anymore? I give the highest value for your rags,” sang Wim Sonneveld in his 'House, garden and kitchen song' from 1955. The rag man or ragman was someone who bought old clothes and resold them...

TILBURG - From rag to sock. You take a thousand kilos of old uniforms, grind them, add old fishing nets or PET bottles, process them into yarn and run them through the sock machines. And voilà: that is roughly the...

The corona crisis quickly made imports from China to Europe a lot more difficult and expensive. Patrick Welp then decided to produce his socks himself from now on. In the Netherlands and from recycled textile waste. With this sustainable innovation,...

WoW! These socks (Vodde) consist of 52% recycled cotton from collected pieces of fabric, 44% recycled polyester from collected PET bottles and 4% elastane. The Dutch company Vodde reuses discarded textiles to make new socks. Vodde makes its yarn from...