Editing Beginners Guide to Tailoring (section)

== Making red and orange dye (Level 13-23) ==

Requirements: 
* Tailoring level above 10
* Money or other possibility to get 300 [[Saltpeter]]
* Money or other possibility to get 6000 [[Water Essence]]s
* some investment money for buying empty vials, investment will return

Get the books on red and orange dye from NPC Grigore Ureche in EVTR and read them. Each dye book costs 5 kgc. Then buy 3000 square (20 gc each) vials either from Tailorica in TG or, if you prefer C2, from Croitorul in Irinveron.

I recommend to make red dye until level 15. Red is the simplest dye and 
you need it later anyway for red fabric and, consequently, for making red scarves. For 300 red dye, you need 300 Saltpeter, 1500 red roses, and 600 water essences. Mix 5 red rose with 2 water essences, 1 saltpeter and 1 square vial.

For the 2700 orange dye, gather 38000 Sunflower and 38000 red rose. You will further need 5400 water essences. Make orange dye using 14 red roses, 14 sunflowers, 2 water essences and 1 square vial. Orange dye has the big advantage of not needing the costly saltpeter. However, there is no recipe requiring orange cloth, so you can sell back the orange dye for 25 gc to the NPCs Tailorica or Croitorul. Considering fails, you get back a little bit more money than you invested for vials.

Don't think this second step was without cost. The water essences and saltpeter you used would have been worth approximately 40k gc.