There's the basic textile course, which teaches different textile processes like knitting, weaving, dying, etc. Are these courses all taught only in theory? Or are there any workshops where we can see actual machines and work on them?

Hi! Most of the courses will be taught in both theory and workshops. Saxion has a room with knittingmachines (computerized and normal flatknit) and a lab for quality-testing and dying/finishing. Weaving is, at least in my curriculum (I'm a third year student), only given on the computer, but you will understand the process as they show a lot of movies and samples. During the study there are a lot of options to see processes within companies, so you can see the weaving machines there probably. I hope this answered your questions :)