Open Studio

Textile department of Pallas University of Applied Sciences encourages students to experiment with warp and weft manipulation tools for handlooms. The tools are mostly invented and built by professor of Pallas UAS Kadi Pajupuu. The course supervisor is Mari-Triin Kirs who participated in Dorothy Waxman contest some years ago and is now teaching weaving at our university. During their event students and teachers demonstrate with the help of videos the use of those tools on handlooms, analyze the samples and show photos of garments made with the help of warp and weft manipulation tools. The tools (RailReed, Stepping Reed, rigid heddle modules, floating warp devices etc) are made in the spirit of DIY.

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Pallas University of Applied Sciences is the only higher education institution of applied arts in Estonia. Pallas provides studies in three focus areas (design, conservation/restoration and the arts), which are organized into seven curricula: photography, painting and restoration, media and advertisement design, furniture design and restoration, leather design and restoration, sculpture and textile. The aim of the textile department is to develop the field of textile art and design in Estonia. The curriculum is broad and includes courses in fashion. The focus of the curriculum is both on individual skills as well as cross-disciplinary collaboration.