TIGHTS DESIGNER
Explore the creative process behind tights design, from original textile patterns and printed tights to materials, techniques and the development of unique hosiery designs.
I’ve always been an entrepreneur, working across graphic design, retail, and creative businesses. I’ve been writing this blog since 2014, sharing my work, creative projects, and business journey.
Before a new design becomes a real product, there is actually quite a lot more to it than just designing the pattern. Normally this doesn’t matter at all to the people buying the tights, but maybe there are some people who are interested of these details. Often months pass between the times I sit down […]
I’ve been designing tights since 2013, and over the years I’ve created somewhere between 400 and 500 different designs. Many of them are still available as made to order pieces through the Virivee tights webshop or in my Etsy shop. My tights are handmade using a variety of techniques, including hand dyeing, screen printing and […]
THIS IS AN ARCHIVE POST FROM 2022. The time has finally come for one of the biggest developments in Virivee’s history. I’ve been thinking about introducing sublimation printing to Virivee for a long time, and I actually had my first test prints made almost two years ago. Now I’ve finally taken the plunge and invested […]
THIS IS AN ARCHIVE POST FROM 2019. It was time to expand the Virivee collection and start designing tights for children too. Until now I had only worked with Lycra (polyamide) tights, but cotton material is the standard choice for kids products, so for this new collection I started working with cotton tights, which meant […]
THIS IS AN ARCHIVE POST FROM 2017. Earlier this year, I designed a collection of sheer tights for Virivee with colourful geometric patterns (I wrote about it here), and it turned out to be such a success that I wanted to take these sheer tights in a more sensual direction. This time, I wanted to […]
THIS IS AN ARCHIVE POST FROM 2017. I really wanted to design a more special collection of tights for Virivee, something you don’t really see on the market. I decided to work with thin, sheer tights and decorate them with small, colourful geometric shapes. The idea was to make the shapes look as if they […]
