Textiles & Fiber Arts Facilities

Facilities for textiles currently includes, papermaking studio, weaving studio, and textile media lab. Graduate students have their own studios and installation spaces. 

Facilities details

General classroom

Papermaking studio with:

• 2-lb capacity Hydra Hollander beater
• Mould and deckles of various sizes
• One professional wove mould and deckle
• Sugetas
• Aardvark 12-ton hydraulic press with 16 x 23 inch platen
• Papermaking vats
• Wooden press boards
• Felts/pellons
• Restraint stack dryer
• Electric burner hot plate
• Non-reactive cookware
• 4’x8’ Vacuum table
• Wet vacuum
• Wiz Mixer
• Pulp sprayer and air compressor
• Strainers, sieves, measuring tools, and blenders

Weaving studio with:

• 12 Floor looms
• Computerized dobby loom

Library with:

• 175+ Textile reference books
• Periodicals
• Slides

Separate graduate studios, installation space and critique areas

Media lab

• 8 Macintosh computers with large screen monitors
• Array of general design software
• Printers and scanners