Fashion & Textiles Facilities
Centred around studio spaces on the Penryn Campus that cater for solo and group working, our Fashion & Textiles Institute includes a printmaking studio, digital fabric printers, professional clothes fitting stands, ultrasonic welders, sampling facilities, hand looms, a digital controlled Jacquard loom, embroidery machines and industrial overlockers.
Our facilities
All courses are served by professional equipment and facilities, enabling you to transform concepts into commercial realities.
Facilities include:
- Professional pattern cutting tables
- Professional clothes fitting stands
- Laser cutting equipment
- Industrial taping and bonding machine
- Ultrasonic welder
- Industrial overlockers
- Industrial blind stitching machines
- Industrial and domestic Knitting machines
- A computer controlled Jacquard loom and hybrid TC2 Jacquard loom
- Industrial dye lab and screen printing facilities
- Industrial analogue and digital embroidery machinery
- Access to multiple large professional studios with the latest photographic equipment - frequently used by external professionals
- Two digital Mac IT suites and access to specialist software
- Software training facilities with Adobe Creative Suite, CLO3D, Wilcom and ScotWeave
- Professional digital textile printing using Mimaki TX3000 printers
- Natural dye garden
- Large costume and fashion styling wardrobes
- Dedicated fashion and textiles shop
Alice Selwood, senior teaching technician in the Fashion & Textiles Institute, tells us about Falmouth's natural dye garden and how the students incorporate it into their work.
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