knitted & woven textiles studio
Our constructed textiles studio includes most of the basics required for knitters and weavers, whether you're a hobbyist or a professional designer!
knitting equipment
- Domestic Brother punchcard knitting machines (standard gauge)
- Domestic Brother punchcard knitting machine (chunky gauge)
- Electronic Brother knitting machines
- Ribbers (for both standard and chunky gauge machines)
- Hague linkers
- Industrial Dubied knitting machines (5 and 7 gauge)
- Lace carriages
- Umbrella swifts
- Ball winders
- Electric cone winder
- Selection of punchcards
- Selection of yarns for sampling
- Machine knitting tools including claw weights, punch card clips, cast-on combs, latch hooks and transfer tools
- Industrial steam iron is available in neighbouring fashion studio
Weaving equipment
- 12 4-harness table looms of varying weaving widths
- Two 8-harness floor looms
- Two mechanical dobby looms (floor)
- 2 inkle looms
- Warping mills
- Selection of boat and stick shuttles
- Selection of yarns for sampling. Cotton warp yarns available for purchase.
- Variety of reeds of varying gauges
- Industrial steam iron is available in neighbouring fashion studio
fibre art equipment
- Combs for carding wool
- Felting washboard
- Selection of natural and coloured roving available for purchase
- Drop spindles
- Needle-felting tools and templates
- Babylock embellisher (felting machine) is available for use in the fashion studio
