Equipment and workstations

The Fashion Lab provides the necessary equipment to make tailoring and knitting products:

Tailoring           

• Workstations, basic patterns and related cloth patterns, mannequins
• Standard linear machines and overlock machines (1 needle - 2 needles), thermo-adhesive press, ironing equipment, button attachment presses
• Heavy duty machines, zig zag machines, three step zig zag, chain, overlocker with ram, collaring, edging, reverse cylindrical (top and bottom cover), button hole/eyelet maker, embroidery machine, digitizer, cutting machines (small/medium format)

Knitwear         

• Workstations, mannequins, basic paper patterns and related fabric patterns
• Manual straight-line knitting machines, bobbin winders, linking machines and ironing equipment with steamer top
• Shima Seiki electronic machines and PC workstation with related programming software

Teaching and business services

• Design and creation of architectural and urban planning models
• Design and creation of models and prototypes
• Design, consultancy and execution of works of art, sculptures and art installations
• Product development consultancy
• Workshops and specialised courses

Services

The Fashion Lab offers students of the School, researchers and professors of the Department the opportunity to book through the Affluences App:

• LABORATORIES (free access to the laboratory)
• MATERIALS (the access to the textile library)
• TRAINING (basic tailoring, basic knitwear and other special training)
• CONSULTANCY (on tailoring and/or on knitwear in presence or via teams with a laboratory technician)

Access the lab

Access to the Laboratory is subject to passing the Safety Course for Access to the Department of Design's Laboratories available in the Online Services in the Data/Safety Courses section.

• Download the Laboratory calendar (PDF) ↓
• Book your place in the Laboratory ↗