Design Tool Room

Contact Info:
(530) 752-8665
designtoolroom@ucdavis.edu

Summer Session 1

• M/F: Remote 9 am-5 pm
• T/W/R: in-person 9 am-5 pm

The Tool Room provides various services and resources to the UC Davis Department of Design. Supplies and equipment are available for checkout to Design students, staff and faculty.

Drafting Supplies

• Architect scales
• Bench brushes
• Circle cutters
• Circle templates
• Compasses
• Electric erasers
• Engineering scales
• Flexible curves
• French curves
• Furniture templates
• Protractors
• Rulers
• T-squares
• Triangles

Sewing & Weaving Supplies

• Bobbins & bobbin cases
• Crochet hooks
• Flexible tape measures
• Knitting needles
• Merrow thread
• Pattern notchers
• Presser & zipper feet
• Shuttles
• Sleigh hooks
• Smocking pleater
• Spindles
• Tapestry needles

General Supplies & Tools

• 3-hole punch
• Adhesives & tape
• Cutting mats
• Extension cords
• Glue guns
• Hair dryers
• Light meters
• Lighting kits
• Linoleum block cutters
• Mat cutters
• Paintbrushes
• Photo backdrops
• Photo reflectors
• Pins
• Scissors
• Squeegees
• Staple guns
• Staplers
• Tripods & monopods
• Utility knives
• Various pens & pencils

Design Graduate Student Equipment

Note: Graduate student equipment is available for graduate student checkout for the duration of a quarter; undergraduates may check out available equipment for daily and overnight use.

A complete list of equipment with pictures is available. To check out equipment, click on “Check In/Out Link.”

Tools checked out from the Tool Room are due back the next business day by 12:30 pm.

Design Graduate Equipment is due back at the end of every quarter.

The Tool Room is closed during breaks and hours are variable during all finals weeks.