Design Crafts Facilities | University of Wales Trinity Saint David
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Design Crafts Facilities | University of Wales Trinity Saint David
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Introduction
The Design Crafts department boasts a broad range of specialist making and processing facilities for glass, ceramics and jewellery, supported by a comprehensive array of general workshops.
Facilities include:
Glass kilns for fusing, slumping, casting, enamelling and painting
Acid bay - hydrofluoric acid for polishing and etching
Plaster room for mould-making and prototyping
Wax working
Gelflex / rubber moulding facilities
Screen-printing facilities - dedicated workshop for screen-printing on glass
Sand-blasting - two dedicated sandblasters for glass (one pot-blaster)
Cold-working facilities - a range of cold-working facilities including lathes, linishers/edge finishers, hand-grinders, diamond flat-bed grinders, hand engravers, diamond saws and glass drills.
Glass cutting room
Leading room
Glass painting room
Glass studios
Ceramic kilns
Fully equipped glaze room
Throwing wheels
Slip casting facilities
Jewellery benches and specialist hand tools
Fully fitted jewellery workshop for soldering, finishing & polishing
BA Design Crafts: Glass, Ceramics and Jewellery
Gallery
Shared Access
Access to other areas of the Faculty is arranged through workshops, however, Swansea College of Art has a policy of allowing students shared access to all of our facilities.
Skip page header and navigation
Introduction
The Design Crafts department boasts a broad range of specialist making and processing facilities for glass, ceramics and jewellery, supported by a comprehensive array of general workshops.
Facilities include:
Glass kilns for fusing, slumping, casting, enamelling and painting
Acid bay - hydrofluoric acid for polishing and etching
Plaster room for mould-making and prototyping
Wax working
Gelflex / rubber moulding facilities
Screen-printing facilities - dedicated workshop for screen-printing on glass
Sand-blasting - two dedicated sandblasters for glass (one pot-blaster)
Cold-working facilities - a range of cold-working facilities including lathes, linishers/edge finishers, hand-grinders, diamond flat-bed grinders, hand engravers, diamond saws and glass drills.
Glass cutting room
Leading room
Glass painting room
Glass studios
Ceramic kilns
Fully equipped glaze room
Throwing wheels
Slip casting facilities
Jewellery benches and specialist hand tools
Fully fitted jewellery workshop for soldering, finishing & polishing
BA Design Crafts: Glass, Ceramics and Jewellery
Gallery
Shared Access
Access to other areas of the Faculty is arranged through workshops, however, Swansea College of Art has a policy of allowing students shared access to all of our facilities.