Surface Pattern and Textiles Facilities
Introduction
The programme is housed in a lively, light and airy studio that accommodates all years of the course making it the heartbeat of our Surface Pattern and Textiles community. You have a personal desk space for the duration of your studies. Either side of the studio are our well-equipped workshops where you can explore a broad range of materials and processes, enabling participation in relevant methods of design practice. 
Our specialist workshops Include:
- A dedicated studio, with personal desks and large tables to work collaboratively around.
- Digital application suites provide in house digital printing on cloth and wallpaper, and UV printing on hard surfaces.
- Mac suites provide industry standard software Adobe Creative Cloud and AVA, large format scanners and portfolio printer.
- Cutting technologies include laser cutting, laser engraving, plotter cutting and water jet cutting.
- Textiles screen printing room and dye lab, facilitating colouration and pattern application on a breadth of substrates using industry standard, traditional and wild colour approaches.
- Multidisciplinary maker space with benches and access to cutting, joining and forming facilities.
- Domestic and industrial sewing machines, digital embroidery machines with industry standard software and a standalone 900 bed Needle punching machine.
- Print making workshops facilitating lino, screen, mono, riso and letterpress printing for Surface Pattern and Textiles applications.