ROTOTO
ROTOTO want to change people’s lives through the way they think about their feet. ROTOTO try to keep creating consumables that can be loved for a lifetime while we are dreaming we can make your life better even a bit. They create everything with pride so that you can feel the quality and subtle euphoria every time you wear them.
ROTOTO’s socks are made in Japan’s largest sock producing region, Nara Prefecture. While most of their products are crafted in Koryocho, places such as Yamatotakada City, Kashiba City and Gose City also produce some of them. The area has been known for its quality textile, including Yamato-momen and Yamato-kasuri, since around the 17th century. Industrial sock production was first introduced to the area in 1910, when a man from ex-Umami village (now Koryocho) brought a sock weaving machine to his hometown from the U.S. after his study tour in the country. As textile weaving declined and people’s life style changed with time, sock production was gradually developed in the area as a new industry. With such a background, the local people in the region still call sock knitting as ‘sock weaving.’