Design Tool Room

Overview

Tool Room

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

Winter 2024

  • Monday – Friday 9:00 am – 7:00 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.

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.

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