SocksFactory: designing your own socks in 3D, in three languages

SocksFactory is a Polish factory that has operated in the knitting industry since 1998, manufacturing for international brands and producing socks for wholesale, events and marketing campaigns.

For their new websites they needed a 3D sock configurator — one that worked across three markets and let customers bring their own designs.

The solution

The client selected the Enterprise plan. The custom front end was built quickly with the 3D viewport and its presets already in place in-house. Project sharing through unique URL links was implemented using Firebase, and customer artwork was applied to the sock by UV mapping onto the 3D model. Submitting a sock project triggers emails through the Twilio API.

In phase two, a JavaScript canvas 2D library was added so users could edit a sock template or a label directly inside the 3D configurator — uploading images, cropping, dragging, rotating, and adding text and basic shapes. The configurator was integrated with Stripe and PayPal to finalise orders.

What a project like this would add today

Several things that were custom work in 2022 are now standard option blocks. Image Upload lets customers supply their own artwork, the Design Canvas positions, scales and rotates it on the product, the Pattern Designer applies repeating designs with scale, rotation and offset control, and Text Input adds custom text with font selection. SVG artwork containing distinct fill colours is detected automatically so each colour channel can be recoloured at runtime.

Beyond that, AI can now generate a starting configurator from a product description and audit an existing one, and the MCP server lets an AI assistant inspect projects and evaluate logic with a scoped token. None of these were part of the original build.