Handicraft arts are regarded as the liveliest documents of the culture and personality of a community. The ornamentation arts and handicraft arts in Anatolia have a significant place in traditional culture. One of the products having an important place in the hand knitting and thick knitting among our handicraft arts and reflecting traditional features of a society is sock knitting. Easy availability of the tools used and the easiness of the technique applied make sock knitting in common affairs in this field. Turkish people have expressed the feelings they want to tell but cannot explain as the shapes and colours in the booties and socks they knit. Having reached the current time and taking its place in the culture of clothing, hand knitted socks have had a place with an integration of the sense of living taste and art with hand skills in a society throughout centuries. Today, hand knitted socks are produced mostly in the countryside by women. However, rapid changes in the industry brings about the gradual disappearance of these products. As a result of the awareness of the importance of handicraft arts by people, a great many kinds of socks that were kept in the wedding chests in the villages have started to be used either in private occasions or exhibited in the museums by collectors. Sock knitting is a leisure time activity. It relaxes the knitter. Moreover, it is an impressive handicraft art with an aesthetic value open to creating numerous designs and creativity. In addition, as in the whole country, sock knitting has been applied abundantly in the region of Polatlı because of the importance given to trousseau. In the current study, the sock samples in the Polatlı region were investigated in terms of materials, techniques, design, colour and usage features. Under the light of the interviews made with the villagers in the town and in a few other villages, local styles were tried to be determined in this issue