Textile, Fashion and Embroidery Resources
In the Cavendish building there are workshops equipped with domestic and specialist industrial embroidery, knitting and sewing machines, hand and dobby looms. There are also textile print facilities, including the latest digital printing technologies.
Dye Lab
The Dyeing facilities in the Cavendish Building offer the capability of dyeing natural yarns and fabrics as well as some man made fibers.
Technical Support: Vicki Wild, Colin Angus
Location: Cavendish Room 5 - check availability
Embroidery Workshops
The Embroidery workshops have a large range of domestic and specialist industrial embroidery machines. Rooms 10 and 11 contain computer controlled embroidery equipment.
Technical Support: Jill Boyes, Sue Prestbury
Locations:
Cavendish Room 10 - check availability
Cavendish Room 11 - check availability
Cavendish Room 205 - check availability
Embroidery Workshops - Code of Practice
Fashion Workshops
The Fashion Workshops are equipped with large cutting tables and a variety of specialist industrial sewing machines and finishing equipment.
Technical Support: Debbie Moore, Maria Sykes, Julie Allen
Locations
Cavendish Room 115 - check availability
Cavendish Room 213 - check availability
Knitting Workshop
The Knitting facilities include Dubied, Domestic electronic and punch card knitting machines in a range of gauges.
Technical Support: Sue Harman
Location: Cavendish Room 17 - check availability
Textile Digital Printing
The Textile digital printing suite situated in the Cavendish building enables scanned original art work and digitally created images to be printed directly onto a range of fabrics.
Technical Support: Vicki Wild, Colin Angus
Location: Cavendish Room 6
Textile Digital Print - Code of Practice
Textile Print Workshop
The Cavendish Textile print workshop offers flat bed silk screen printing suitable for dress and furnishing width fabrics as well as facilities for transfer printing and Batik.
Technical Support: Vicki Wild, Colin Angus
Location: Cavendish Room 9 - check availability
Weave Workshops
The Weave Workshop facilities include a range of equipment including 8 and 16 shaft tabletop looms through to 24 shaft Texel and ARM electronic dobby looms as well as a TC-1 Digital Jacquard Loom. There is also access to Scotweave design software.
Technical Support: Rebecca Faragher
Location: Cavendish Room 25 - check availability
Training
Training is required before any equipment can be used in these workshops.
The following courses include workshop inductions in their teaching programmes:
- BA (Hons) Embroidery
- BA (Hons) Fashion
- BA (Hons) Textiles
- BA (Hons) Textile Design for Fashion
- BA (Hons) Textiles in Practice
Other art and design students should contact their tutor in the first instance to arrange the necessary training. Due to the high demand for these resources an academic need will need to be demonstrated.
Fabric Store
Fabrics, haberdashery and related products can be purchased from the Fabric Store, located on the Chatham Ground Floor adjacent to the "A4 & More" Store.
Schiffli Machine
An historic Schiffli embroidery machine is located in the Cavendish building. Further details.