Design crafts student working on a project

Design Crafts Facilities

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

Gallery

Glass student working on a project
Student using craft tools
Student working on a glass project
Design Crafts student working on a project
Design Crafts facilities
Student working with clay

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.