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Design Crafts Workshop Facilities
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)
- 冷作设施——一系列冷作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