With Vodde on your feet, you not only enjoy the best quality socks; you also give discarded textiles a second life. And that doesn't just make your feet happy, it makes the planet happy too. We make the yarn with which we knit our socks from used textiles. Vodde stands for 100% recycled yarn - and we're quite proud of that.
Curious about what this circular process looks like in practice? From old rags to new socks, this is how we work:
Collect
Old clothes? Give them to us - we love cast-offs. Every year we collect around 28 million textile waste. A lot? Quite a lot, yes. But then consider that in the Netherlands alone we throw away around 554 kilotons (!) of textiles every year...
Together with partners like Sympany, we collect all kinds of textiles. Did you know, for example, that we collect old police uniforms for recycling? We also reuse residual textiles that are left over during production, but also old rags from people like you and me. So it could be that your old sweater will soon be on your feet again!
Sort, clean and reduce
We take these old rags to our partner in Southern Europe, where we first sort everything by color, material and quality. We also remove additions, such as buttons, zippers and labels. We then crush the textile and grind it into pulp. In this way we return the old textile all the way back to the cotton fiber.
Spinning new yarn
Time for a piece of craftsmanship: from this pulp we spin our unique and 100% recycled Rag yarn. During spinning, the fibers are twisted together, so that they no longer shift and together they form a thread. Et voilà, new life is born. Sokking awesome, right?!
Knitting socks, but first… testing!
As soon as we receive the new Vodde yarn in our knitting center in Tilburg, we first test it for quality. Always under the watchful eye of our knitting hero Marcus, who has been in the business for over 30 years. And yes, Marcus is strict. Has the yarn passed the test and is it strong enough and will it not pill? Then it is time for action: knitting designs! In Tilburg we devise and perfect the designs, so that your feet are assured of comfort and a unique design.
Are we 100% satisfied? Then we send all the information to Marcus' colleagues in Southern Europe and the knitters get to work. In this way we assure you of the very best quality, because knitting is truly a profession in itself.
And so Vodde socks are born, ready for feet that are eager to help the planet a little. Because sustainable socks won't change the world; it's the people who wear them who do that... So you!
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