2D workshops

Fashion

The fashion workshop facilities include:

• cutting space with pattern-cutting tables
• sewing machines
• overlockers
• tailors mannequins (male and female)
• industrial steam presses
• edge fuser with a cutting table
• seminar/show spaces for group activity

The main sewing area has flat-lock industrial sewing machines with 4-thread overlockers and Industrial 3-thread cover stitch machine.

Adobe Creative suite and the Gerber software set are used in the computer suite.

Printmaking

We can support a range of printing practices with a number of print tables configured for screen printing. It has:

• plate and stone litho presses
• offset litho bed
• two large Victorian presses for lino

The etching facility includes:

• ink mixing facilities
• an aquatint box
• hot plates
• a series of presses for different sized prints

The workshop also has a number of print drying racks for each print system.

Textiles

Our specialist area for textiles construction provides a:

• sewing room with electric sewing machines
• dye lab with vats for mixing and dyeing
• baking oven for curing dyed items

The paper making area has:

• pulping and mixing facilities
• screens for manufacture

Felt making facilities include:

• a steamer
  
• A3 sized heat transfer printing
• silk screen

The comprehensive silk screen set up includes facilities for stretching screens, exposing photographic emulsions, adjustable print tables and drying racks for prints.

We also have a jet spray unit for screen cleaning.