Beginners Guide to Tailoring
Before you start, please ask yourself the following questions:
- Do you want to spend a lot of time for levelling until you can make your first wearable item?
- Are you able to bring up approximately 1000000gc for the ingredients?
- Are you willing to learn a profession that is not profitable?
If you have answered all questions with "yes", you have just won a free course on Tailoring!
Getting started (Level 0-12)
Requirements:
- 50 kgc
Get the book on fabric weaving (5 kgc) from NPC Grigore Ureche in EVTR and read it. Buy 600 Looms either from Tailorica in TG or, if you prefer C2, from Croitorul in Irinveron. Either way you will spend 30 kgc on looms. Then buy 6000 thread from any general store (since you will run a lot, the store in VOTD is in good reach from the store). Organize your favorite food to support roughly 7000 food points (for example 150 FPs). Get to a quiet place and start weaving (mixing 1 loom and 10 thread).
After mixing the stuff, you should have roughly 500 white fabric and level 12.
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 Essences
- 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 4 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 40 kgc.