Fashion and textile workshops

A wide shot of the fashion studio, full of students hard at work. To the right, a row of large workbenches are mixed in with over a dozen mannequins wearing various designs. To the left, a row of sewing machines.
A student crouches by a computerised flat knitting machine as her creation works its way through the mechanism.
A student weaving at a wooden loom.
Two students working on printed textiles.
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About the Fashion and textile workshops

Our workshops contain a wide range of facilities and equipment to meet the needs of students specialising in fashion, knitwear, printed textiles and woven textiles.

Facilities and equipment

Fashion design:

  • industrial sewing machines
  • multi-thread overlockers for woven and knitted fabrics
  • professional dress stands for menswear and womenswear
  • fusible presses and vacuum presses

Knitwear:

  • computerised Shima Seiki knitting machines across 3 gauges
  • Dubied knitting machines
  • linkers
  • manual knitting machines

Printed textiles:

  • dedicated studios
  • Mimaki digital printer
  • heat-transfer printer
  • large hand screenprinting tables with adjoining screen exposing rooms and dedicated dye lab

Woven textiles:

  • Thread Controller (TC2) digital Jacquard loom
  • computerised dobby looms
  • manual looms

Subjects using this facility

Art, design and fashion

Winchester School of Art offers a wide range of courses, whether you're inspired by fine art, game design, graphic arts or fashion and textiles.

Related facilities

A student walking between several industrial-sized printers and a long work bench lined with guillotine paper cutters

Creative services centre

The creative services centre enables students from all programmes to submit artwork through an online system to be printed or treated using our specialist printers and equipment.