What we're for
We make socks for people who wear total black. People who know colour. Architects, designers, illustrators, art directors, gallerists, artists — a creative class. The kind of people who picked their wardrobe deliberately. And don't want a mess in it.
3% of your visible body is the ankle. That's where Limono lives. A small dose of colour, knitted in, not printed on top. So it stays.
How it started
One day the illustrator was asked to design a sock. She wouldn't mind making them all the time, she thought.
Her husband had always wanted colourful socks but never found a pair he liked. Her daughter said «wow!».
That's how it started.
Studio now
Now it's an illustrator in Aveiro, a knitting mill an hour north, and a box of folders labeled «later», full of designs waiting for their place.
How we make a pair
01 Drawn
The illustrator draws every motif directly on the 3D shape of the sock. Not on a flat surface. The pattern wraps the foot. Not flattened.
02 Picked
Not every design ships. We throw out eight out of nine. Colour is decided before the design is drawn — it has to sit with black before it's allowed to exist.
03 Knitted
Our partner mill is in northern Portugal. They've made socks there for decades. The motif is knitted into the fabric, jacquard. Not printed on top.
What we're not
Not fun socks. We're for people who wear monochrome on purpose.
Not printed. Print fades, cracks, peels. We knit the motif into the fabric.
Not mass-market quality with a «premium» price tag. We charge for the work, not the markup.
Not a corporation. Just an illustrator and a knitting mill.
Three ways into Limono
That's the studio. Now back to your wardrobe.