Technical drawing, drafting and art storage. Rules, scales, set squares, compasses, templates and boards, plus the art folders and portfolios that get your art there in one piece.
Six routes across technical drawing, drafting and carrying the work.
Measuring and scaling
Triangular and flat scale rules carrying twelve scales, stainless steel and aluminium straight edges with a cutting lip, safety rules and tape measures.
Angles, arcs and circles
Adjustable and fixed acrylic set squares, geometry squares, and bow compasses with lead refills.
Repeatable shapes
French curve sets, comma curves, pattern masters, circle templates, 1:100 furniture templates and shatterproof lettering stencils.
Boards and parallel motion
Parallel motion rules, T-squares with a carry bag, and board clips. The setup for drawing accurately to scale by hand.
Something flat to work on
A3 clipboards and A1 and A2 drafting boards, with flexible metal clips to hold the paper flat while you work.
Getting your art there in one piece
Rigid carry cases with no rings inside to crease your art, cardboard portfolios, fold-over art bags, polyholdalls and A3 display books.
The same range, sorted how you prefer.
Scale rules do the arithmetic for you. A triangular scale rule carries twelve scales across six faces, from 1:20 to 1:50 to 1:100 and beyond, so you read the drawing straight off in real-world millimetres without converting anything. It's the most useful object on an architecture student's desk.
Set squares and parallel motion. A parallel motion rule slides up and down the board staying exactly horizontal. Rest a set square on it and you get accurate verticals and angles anywhere on the sheet. An adjustable set square handles everything in between, which saves owning six of them.
French curves and pattern masters. A French curve is a set of fixed curve segments you slide along until one part matches the line you want. A pattern master puts a curve, a straight edge, grid lines and a comma curve into one tool, which is why fashion and pattern-cutting students carry one and not much else.
Art folders, portfolios and cases. They are three names for roughly the same job, and the difference that matters is rigidity. A rigid carry case protects mounted and framed pieces. A fold-over art folder is lighter and better for loose sheets. A polyholdall copes with wet or awkward work and comes in packs, which is how schools buy them. Ring-bound portfolios are convenient, but the rings crease anything thicker than paper, which is why ours have none.
We supply a lot of universities and colleges, and the list they send us barely changes from year to year. If you're kitting out a department, our education and wholesale team can help: education accounts take 45% off and we work on 30-day terms. Open a trade account.
