workshop for dying and textile printing
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workshop for dying and textile printing
Mon–Fri 9 am–12 noon and 1 pm–4.30 pm
Weißenhof Campus,
Keramikbau, Room 138
The Textile Printing and Dyeing Workshop sees itself as an artistic space for ideas and creativity, as well as a venue for experimentation, design and the realisation of student projects.
At the heart of the workshop is an eight-metre-long industrial flat-bed printing table (‘screen printing table’) for repeat prints and pattern development. The textile printing area is complemented by sections dedicated to dyeing and garment manufacturing. This blend of techniques in textile finishing enables contemporary and forward-looking material and product developments, as well as the use of traditional techniques within the field of textile design.
The aim is to guide and support individual creative projects, to develop students’ sensitivity to textiles and aesthetics, and to impart a sound and lasting understanding of textile specifications and industrial manufacturing processes.
Facilities
Textile printing
- 8-metre-long flatbed printing table (190 cm x 800 cm)
- Pattern car
- Flat-film printing screens (‘screens’) in various sizes ranging from 30 x 30 cm to 142 x 102 cm
- Exposure frame for stencil development
- Exposure tank for stencil cleaning
- Light table
- Dye systems: pigment dyes, effect dyes
- Squeegees in various sizes
- Laboratory heating cabinet (110 x 90 x 45 cm) for fixing and finishing
- Magnetic heat press (70 x 100 cm)
- Steam-setting tube (140 cm fabric width)
- 42-inch plotter (inkjet printing) for film production
- Student Technical Data Sheet Archive
- Reference Library: Technical Textiles
Dye works
- Sample dyeing using the pull-out method (chassis dyeing)
- Equipment for tendering procedures
- Airbrush
- Synthetic dye for cellulose, polyamide, wool, silk, polyester and polyacrylic
- Natural dyes
Ready-to-wear
- Industrial sewing machine
- Overlock
- Steam ironing station
Range of courses
Traditional textile finishing – that is, textile dyeing, textile printing and subsequent finishing processes – involves highly sensory techniques that are closely linked to considerations of product quality, product properties and the aesthetic effect.
Through practical exercises, theoretical lectures and the project-based implementation of designs, students gain an understanding of and a feel for the creative and technical possibilities of textile finishing.
Our in-house workshop experience gives us confidence in the design impact and functional properties of textile materials.
Experimental techniques play a significant role in the innovative, creative and avant-garde aspects of textile printing and dyeing.
Textile printing
- Theory of industrial textile finishing with a focus on textile printing
Production processes, manufacturing plant, finishing processes, equipment - The Basics of Practical Textile Printing
- Film production, analogue and digital
- Stencil development
- Design implementation in traditional textile printing
- Design implementation using innovative printing techniques
- Pattern printing
- Colour scheme creation
- Mixing shades of printing ink
- Material skills
- Equipment
Dye works
- Theory of industrial textile finishing with a focus on textile dyeing: production processes, manufacturing plant, finishing processes, equipment
- Fundamentals of practical, industrial dyeing with synthetic dyes (solid dyeing, two-colour dyeing, calculation of colour shades)
- Dyeing with natural and synthetic dyes
- traditional shibori techniques
- traditional reserve techniques and
- experimental dyeing techniques
Project-based work
- personalised project support
- interdisciplinary projects
- Technical combinations
- A changing programme of courses during the workshop month
