Tailoring

The tailor is able to make his own clothes and cloth-based armor and items, both for personal use and for sale to others.

What are the best strategies for using and developing the tailoring skill? Which recipes are the most and least useful? What classes are best suited to tailoring? What cities are the best places to practice your trade? Can you make a profit off of tailoring, and if so how?

Post your strategies on how to best use and develop the tailoring skill, and read, rate and comment on those posted by others.
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i'm a newbie.
# May 07 2001 at 2:48 AM Rating: Decent
is tailoring a good skill? or should i train another one? i'm a dwarf warrior and doesn't need leather stuff since i'm twinked. the only thing i need is bandages, 'cause they're so expensive..

are these skills only for money making purpose (selling stuff) or are they necessary for playing the game??

i just want to hack and slash my way throughout the game..but maybe it'll be hard without these skills? dp i HAVE to train everyone of them? i thought that it would be enough with just specializing in ONE of them..tailoring for example, since i can sew my own bandages with it.

cya!
RE: i'm a newbie.
# May 18 2001 at 12:59 PM Rating: Decent
For you, blacksmithing is the deal. But many of the other skills help you. In fact I believe there are some blacksmith recipes that need enchanted metals from enchanters. You will need a little experience in every skill to get everything you want. I’m not a blacksmith so I don’t know.

You will need a little tailoring to make padding. Leather padding, which is used by Blacksmithing see above to make Fine Steel Plate armor. You have to be a heavy twink not to want a piece or two of this. However, you should have little more need for tailoring.

As far as using for need, Warriors use the blacksmith skill most because they need armor. Where as intellect casters and Monks use tailoring. Because of the weight requirement of Monks, many of them take tailoring into the 80s or further.
RE: i'm a newbie.
# May 07 2001 at 9:19 AM Rating: Default
I wouldn't worry too much. I have a skill of only 7 in Tailoring, but I have yet to fail in making bandages. So, unless you want to master it and make robes to sell, you can probably get away with a new skill.
HQ Bear Skins?
# May 02 2001 at 3:19 PM Rating: Default
I haven't played everquest for quite a while, and I was wondering if drop rates for the aformentioned skins has changed any. Do they still only drop off of black bears, or are they possible to find on all sorts of bears? I kinda feel guilty as a 32nd level druid running around smiting the bears that newbies are hunting.
RE: HQ Bear Skins?
# May 03 2001 at 10:54 PM Rating: Decent
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All the bears drop them, kodiaks, young kodiaks, black bears, even the bears of Everfrost drop them. Just rare drops still.
Re: fleeting quivers
# Apr 28 2001 at 1:54 AM Rating: Default
RE: Re: fleeting quivers
# Apr 29 2001 at 4:00 AM Rating: Good
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As of April 7, 2001, there is NO workable recipe for making fleeting quivers even though there is a patern sold for it.
Complete Recipes for Tailoring
# Apr 26 2001 at 11:10 PM Rating: Default
I have been looking for a complete list of all the known Tailoring recipes and the suggested prices for each. Does anyone have any idea where I can find that I have several recipes but I am wanting to increase my abilities and make some of the fun stuff. Any help would be most helpful.

I have looked at eqtrader com with no luck maybe I'm just stupid but I can't find anything on that site. If possible send a direct link to the list please.

thanks,
Grune
RE: Complete Recipes for Tailoring
# Apr 29 2001 at 3:56 AM Rating: Good
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The site I think you're looking for is:
http://www.eqtraders.com/secrets/recipes_tailoring.htm
NOT www.eqtrader.com thats a different site altogether.

There never really is a complete list for tailoring as new recipies are continually (so far) being added and changed or "fixed".
Begining Tailoring
# Apr 24 2001 at 10:07 PM Rating: Decent
Hey i'm a lvl 10 monk just starting on tailoring. I have a small sewing kit and have made some tattered stuff with runed cat pelts. i wanna move on to better stuff but i dont know how. does anybody have any tips or things that are good for beginers to make?
RE: Begining Tailoring
# Apr 26 2001 at 1:49 AM Rating: Good
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You'll want to make Raw Silk armour to begin with. These items can be made by combining 2 silk swatches and a tunic or pant pattern or 1 silk swatch and some other pattern.

Also you'll want to make your own bags to reduce your weight. Start with the tailored wrist pouch by combining a silk cord with a ruined wolf pelt.

Later you'll be able to make Cured Silk armour and Wu's Fighting Gauntlets using Heady Kiolas (made through the brewing skill) which are monk only armour that you'll likely be using for a long time.

Note:
silk thread= 2 spiderling silks
silk swatch= 2 spider silk
silk bandages= 2 silk threads
silk cord= 3 silk threads

So kill those spiders :OP
All the Silk you want
# Apr 23 2001 at 3:40 PM Rating: Decent
For those Tailors out there pulling your hair out trying to collect Spider Silk, or just sick of paying everyone else to do it for you. There is an easy solution.... GUK! Yes, guk at the first split turn right into the water fallow it till you come to Rooms filled with spider. The stay put and don't aggro on a lvl 29 mage (unless you sit down next to one) and I've pulled down 4 silks off one spider at time.... Well good luck and happy tailoring.
RE: All the Silk you want
# Apr 27 2001 at 6:57 PM Rating: Default
Sigh - I hate it when people only tell half the story.

Yes, the spiders down there have good silk drop rates, what this guy failed to tell you though is that if you kill any of the froggys that you might happen to see along the way, then you will very quickly earn the hatered of said froggys.

Also, Guk is a rather high level dungeon - lot's of trains, lot's of dangerous critters - note that this guy is a 29th level character.

If you're 10th to 14th level, you can get some descent silk harvesting and XP to boot by hunting the giant spiders in West Commons or North Ro.
RE: All the Silk you want
# Apr 30 2001 at 3:10 AM Rating: Decent
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Funny, I go into W. Commons and kill spideys, and I get nothing off of them. I gave up after 15 kills and started hunting the Pumas instead, as they QUITE often drop High and medium grade pelts.

Maybe I'll go back there and kill another 10 or 20 spiders... might just have been bad luck.

I have heard, however, that W Karana is tops for pulling spider silks. That's going to be my next stop once I'm done making a couple of stacks of leather padding.

Luck to you all!

Ordinancy
L9 DE Wizard of Solusek Ro
Tarew Marr server

Cuenyar <Sunset Dragons>
L9 HE Cleric of Tunare
Tarew Marr server
RE: All the Silk you want
# Apr 29 2001 at 10:36 AM Rating: Default
Greetings: After those WC or Oasis spiders go green for you theres always EK,,Carrion spiders drop silk and have been snacking on Halflings. Open them up and you get the halfling parts for baking. The Crag spiders were much nastier and scouled at me alot.. Plenty of wolves and lions round there too, I spent ALOT of time medding on that wooden bridge..Bad side of the coin is the Clopses/Giants..
RE: All the Silk you want
# Apr 30 2001 at 11:44 AM Rating: Decent
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The crag spiders may be nastier, but they have one of the highest rates of silk drop. Legends tell of getting 8 silks off one spidey, with 3-4 being the norm. They are a little more rare, and EK is a more dangerous zone, so only hunt there if you have some protection.
RE: All the Silk you want
# Apr 29 2001 at 10:27 AM Rating: Default
And nots let anyone forget why those 4 spiders are down there,,to protect the 5th one..The large or giant spider(which drops the shield's and armor) and is camped by lev29's who wanna make a lazy buck instead of grouping in a high level place..Guess the origonal poster was one of those wimps i see there often......
RE: All the Silk you want
# May 11 2001 at 5:54 PM Rating: Good
Wow after all that bashing I really don't feel like giving any more info out. But in my defense... Yes it rather tought for newbies to camp this area.. And when those of you that complained find a better place to sit and CAMP for the Cured Silk ingredaints PLZ post. And anyone of lower lvl that has ever run into me inthere has bein more than welcome to kill the spiders for EXP and I even let them have the shield. For those of you trying to improve the post :) thanks for the extra info on all the other locations. Anyone complaining, talk to me when your a grand master tailor then maybe i'll listen. Happy hunting. easy on the bashing plz
Were Do I get ore
# Apr 23 2001 at 9:31 AM Rating: Default
Im a Level 9 Rogue, Im in Qeynos and I want to know were do I get Ore, or Metal bits So i can make Studded Armor. Someone told me Highpass but my level is to low to travel there. Any Info you can give would be great
RE: Were Do I get ore
# Apr 26 2001 at 2:01 AM Rating: Good
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First you can't buy metal bits (as far as I'm aware) and you just buy the ore from someone. I'm not sure if there's anyone in Erudin that sells ore. You may have to go as far as Erudin to pick it up. Freeport is a much better place to start your smithing career. You have to make the Studs yourself or pay a Smith to make them for you. Since ore is somewhat hard to get in Qeynos (I think) either stay permanently in Freeport or temporarily take a little trip over to Erudin if you plan on making your own Studs.

NOTE:
metal bits= 2 small pieces of ore and a flask of water
studs= 3 metal bits, a file and a flask of water (you get the file back)
What drops Pieces of HQ ore?
# Apr 22 2001 at 11:14 AM Rating: Default
I have been trying to find Pieces of hq ore to make a vale sewing kit, they are supposed to drop off the cinder, flame, and fire goblins, but all i have gotten are bricks of hq ore, not pieces, anyone know what actually drops the PIECES of HQ ore? Thank you
RE: What drops Pieces of HQ ore?
# Jun 12 2001 at 11:31 AM Rating: Default
Im not sure of your lvl so Im not sure if this will help, I hunt in permafrost a lot and see lots of hg ore some small some large.
RE: What drops Pieces of HQ ore?
# May 25 2001 at 4:27 PM Rating: Default
They drop most commonly off the elites in Runnyeye
RE: What drops Pieces of HQ ore?
# Apr 26 2001 at 2:09 AM Rating: Good
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Pieces of HQ ore are a rare drop off goblins in Runnyeye.
Vale sewing kit components
# Apr 22 2001 at 11:12 AM Rating: Default
RE: Vale sewing kit components
# Apr 26 2001 at 2:12 AM Rating: Good
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vale sewing kit= 1 high quality metal bits, 1 needle mold, 1 thimble mold, and 1 flask of water
high quality metal bits= 2 pieces of HQ ore and a flask of water
Vale Sewing Kit
# Apr 20 2001 at 12:50 PM Rating: Default
OK, maybe I'm a little dumb or something. I went to the Vale forge (I am a halfling druid) to make a Vale Sewing Kit. I put in the normal ingredients for a sewing kit; metal bit, needle mold, thimble mold, flask of water. I got a message that said something like, "This container does not accept those items in that combination, try another forge" What am I doing wrong? Is there something I don't know? Thanks!

Doowopp, Dr00d, 25th season
Veeshan
RE: Vale Sewing Kit
# Apr 25 2001 at 10:03 AM Rating: Decent
There are forges, and then there are forges. Don't ask me why that is, but once you figure out which ones are for newbies and which ones are for skilled smiths you will be alright.
RE: Vale Sewing Kit
# Apr 23 2001 at 2:17 PM Rating: Decent
You need to use high quality metal bits not just the regular metal bits, must combine 2 hq pieces of ore and 1 water flask to make hq metal bits
Vale Sewing Kit
# Apr 20 2001 at 12:50 PM Rating: Decent
Color i want Color
# Apr 19 2001 at 12:52 PM Rating: Default
How do you make die?

or change the color of items you make, like the raw silk?

or is it posible?
RE: Color i want Color
# Apr 26 2001 at 2:31 AM Rating: Good
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Dye can only be used on fine steel armour currently. It is also very painful to use.

First you need to make an extract.
You need to gather components from either foraging or killing the mobs that have the main ingredients. The known ingredients so far are:
Charcoal-Black
Evergreen Leaves-Green
Iron Oxide-Red Rust
Jack O' Lantern Fungus-Yellow
Permafrost Crystals-Blue
Russet Oxide-Brown Rust
Sarcoscypha Fungus-Red
Get a Shaman or Rogue to combine these for you with a vial (made by a master potter) and a flask of water in their specialty medicine bag or mortar and pestle.

Then make the dye.
Combine the extract with one two or three resins in a medium clay jar. The more resins you put in the lighter the colouring will be.

Finally dye the fine steel armour.
Get a master smith to combine your dye with 1 completed piece of fine steel armour, 1 jar of acid, and 1 jar of lacquer.

You can fail at anyone of these steps requiring you to start over... Yeah. Have fun with that.
Othmire Fur Moccasins
# Apr 18 2001 at 5:38 PM Rating: Default
Anybody know the recipe for Othmire Fur Moccasins?
RE: Othmire Fur Moccasins
# Apr 26 2001 at 2:34 AM Rating: Good
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NOTE:
make sure you use a Coldain Tanners Kit
RE: Othmire Fur Moccasins
# Apr 26 2001 at 2:32 AM Rating: Good
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Othmire Fur Moccasins= 3 othmir furs, 1 silver thread, 1 boot pattern, 1 vial of clear mana
Cougar Skins
# Apr 18 2001 at 9:11 AM Rating: Decent
Does anyone have a clue what cougar skins are good for - I can't find a recipe, and I've failed in every experiment I've tried with them in tailoring. I have medium and high quality skins, and would love to know whether to sell them or keep them for tailoring.
RE: Cougar Skins
# Apr 19 2001 at 1:18 AM Rating: Default
Talk to the friendly gnolls on Ice Clad.
They will make you Cougarskin Boots and other things.
They are friendly unless you attacked them.
Halfing Racial Aromor
# Apr 17 2001 at 11:40 PM Rating: Decent
How does one make the Halfing Racial Armor? Also since I have your attention how do you make the weight reducing packbacks?
RE: weight reducing containers
# Apr 26 2001 at 2:47 AM Rating: Good
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tailored wrist pouch= 1 silk cord and 1 ruined wolf pelt
small tailored bag= 1 silk cord and 1 low quality wolf pelt
large tailored pouch= 1 silk cord and 1 low quality cat skin
large tailored bag= 1 silk cord and 1 low quality bear skin
handmade backpack= 1 backpack pattern and 1 high quality bear skin
RE: Halfing Racial Aromor
# Apr 26 2001 at 2:44 AM Rating: Good
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First to make Halfling armour you need to be at least a master smith and above average brewer or know some one who is. Next make a Vale Sewing Kit using your Smithing skill. Make acorn oil using your Brewing skill.
Combine the appropriate pattern, brute hide, acorn oil, and the appropriate number of metal studs or steel boning.
If your deity is Karana get an Imbued Plains Pebble to make the imbued version of the armour although the trivial will be much higher.
shadow silk
# Apr 16 2001 at 12:37 PM Rating: Default
Does anyone know how to make a swatch of shadow silk? I need it for the robe of the lost circle quest. It is a tailoed item.
RE: shadow silk
# Apr 17 2001 at 2:03 AM Rating: Default
You combine 1 silk swatch, 1 scroll of Gather Shadows (found at necro guilds), and one Shadow Wolf Pelt (not a ruined pelt) in a tailoring container. Fairly difficult to make. Had a character with a tailoring skill of 84 make it on the first try though.

Shallandra
Lanys
patterns
# Apr 14 2001 at 5:38 PM Rating: Default
so if i buy a pattern for something i can just keep the pattern then and it doesnt get used up when i make the armor or whatever?
RE: patterns
# Apr 16 2001 at 6:23 PM Rating: Default
No, patterns disappear after used. But you can buy lots of them and they are stackable.
silk swatch
# Apr 13 2001 at 10:00 AM Rating: Default
I understand that 2 silk threads make 1 silk swatch, yet how does one combine them? Is there a special(or prefered) method? Do I need a pattern? What do I put them in to combine them into a swatch. This may sound basic, but we all have to start somehow.
RE: silk swatch
# Apr 13 2001 at 10:34 AM Rating: Decent
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No, 2 silk threads combine to make a silk bandage.

2 spider silks combine to make a silk swatch.

Both of these combines can be done in a sewing kit. No pattern is needed (just don't stack the thread if you're making band-aids).

Also, check out eqtraders.com. Arguably the best EQ tradesman web source.
RE: silk swatch
# Apr 25 2001 at 10:11 AM Rating: Decent
And if I may add: There are spiders and there are spiderlings. If you combine 2 spiderlings silks you get the silk thread. If you combine two of those silk threads you get bandages. This is a fabulous skill builder for the newbie tailor as there are many spiderlings to be had in the newbie hunting areas.

To then used the bandages (on yourself or your pals) click on your Abilities bar on the right side of the screen. There you should find Bind Wound. Hot key this over to the left side of the screen so it will be readily accessible. One click on bind wound equals one bandage used. Several bandages may be needed for serious wounds.

Bandaging can make you instantly popular with the accident prone.
Here is how I get pelts
# Apr 12 2001 at 6:52 PM Rating: Default
I am a lvl 35 half-elf rangerette and doing tailoring. when I get low on pelts or want to spend time on my skill, I head over to everfrost peaks and find a barbarian newbie around lvl 2 or 3 who is not wearing any or little armors visable. I ask him if he wants me to hunt with me, and I will buff him and heal him and even sew him all the tattered armors he can wear but I get all the spiderling silks and all the pelts to do it. He gets all the coins and all the junk stuff from everything else that comes by, including all rusty wpns and everything. (I even give him a box/bag or 2 just so he will stay and fight and wont keep running off to sell his loot! Newbie warriors/rogues work best for this, shamans are all concerned about spells and mana, and don't continually fetch me my pelts!)

The pathing is simple and the newbies love it when I 'remove' the three 'soloist' undead types from the area. I pull tonz of beasties and I even get other newbies bringing their pelts to me for tailoring. I have a bunch of patterns of different types rdy so I can hand them back a new piece of tattered armor on the spot. I regularly get lots of LQ, MQ, HQ pelts from the wolves and even HQ bear pelts too. I always run out of studs/boning before I run out of pelts.

Plus the one newbie I picked out as a 'hunting partner' gets to about lvl 5 in no time and is fitted with new tattered armor and is happy as all get-out. Promising to love me forever and such. (Must be my figure in my Ivy etched tunic, and the fact that not too many of us gals play everquest!) hehe.

Vessa Spiderbane
Sabertooth Tiger Hides
# Apr 10 2001 at 7:35 PM Rating: Default
So what are they good for? Has anyone tried them as fleeting quivers?
RE: Sabertooth Tiger Hides
# Apr 10 2001 at 9:08 PM Rating: Decent
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Sabertooth hides are for Woodelf cultural tailoring. The regular hides are for studded and the excellant hides are for reinforced. The fleeting quiver patterns have been around since before Kunark. They're still the big mystery.
Heady Kiolas
# Apr 10 2001 at 6:59 PM Rating: Decent
I found the sap, silly me didnt look under the bottle and across the cask, LOL oh well.

Water flasks in W Cabilis at 290, 531, Lybar sells it, I'm just saying for people to know, so they dont have to search all over for it LOL.
Hand Made Backpacks
# Apr 09 2001 at 8:59 AM Rating: Decent
So with the change to 10% in weight reduction for handmade backpacks, does that increase the price?

What are people regularly selling these things for?

Mugwye
RE: Hand Made Backpacks
# Apr 11 2001 at 11:26 AM Rating: Default
Well met brothers and sisters...
Its weird seeing how much certain things go for on other servers,you all seem to have it made.On Eci,backpacks gor for 110pp minimum,and HQ bear go for 30,usually 40pp,talk about an inflated server.
I've noticed that no matter who the person selling is,prices seem to stay the same,maybe a 10pp difference,but thats it.In the case of trade skills,I don't see it as how easily you can get the items required,but in how long it takes to get to the skill level to make those items.I just finished making cured silk,and now must go in search of HQ pelts to do either reinforced,or quivers....its very time consuming...
I'm also a master smith,and when someone wants FS armour,if I have to hunt the items,its very time consuming...maybe if I got exp from the mobs it would not be so bad,but at level 35,you get no exp,and its boring hunting for these items.
Has anyone noticed that HQ pelts of all kinds are dropping less? I've noticed lately on Eci they do...plus i'm not foraging Morning Dew as much either...hmm another Verant nerf,or just bad luck??
Good luck all,and hopefully your servers don't get as inflated as mine.

Alye
35th dr00d Eci
RE: Hand Made Backpacks
# Apr 11 2001 at 4:24 PM Rating: Decent
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I'm also on E'Ci, and I find it a little odd that for such an "old" server, the prices seem to be pretty high and competitive. I've seen HQ pelts range from 20-50 plat. I've also seen HQ bear pelts come and go in spurts. They truly seem to me to be a random rare drop. In one afternoon in West Commons I got 2 off hunting bears in about an hour. Other times I've not gotten any quality pelt, low, medium OR high. Of all the pelts (wolf, cat, bear) quality cat pelts seem to drop the most. Maybe because more races wear medium? Or are there just more cats in the world? I think because the profit on bear pelts is so much higher, they are just hunted more than cats, and thus the rare HQ pelt becomes even more rare as more folk are hunting it.

On the other hand, I recently found one in the village North of T2 in West Karana, and bought it for a few gold.

My Fine Plate career has just taken off, so when I run out of folded mq sheets, I spend an afternoon in Highhold stocking up. That way, I can fill orders as they come in.
RE: Hand Made Backpacks
# Apr 27 2001 at 4:06 PM Rating: Default
Nothing odd about that - if you're on an older server, then that means that you've got alot of higher level characters and you've got alot of well financed twinks - ie/these folks have tons of plat and really don't care about dropping 50pp for a pelt.
RE: Hand Made Backpacks
# Apr 09 2001 at 5:52 PM Rating: Excellent
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In my experience prices rarely have anything to do with stats. It's a supply and demand thing. In this case Varent is giving you free advertising (for 10 slot backpacks). Now that people know that they reduce weight the demand may go up. I noticed more HQ bear skins going for 25pp instead of the usual 20. If there are more buyers than sellers you can bet the price will go up. As you're passing through EC pay attention to auctions to buy backpacks. See if you notice an increase. There will be your answer.
RE: Hand Made Backpacks
# Apr 10 2001 at 7:11 AM Rating: Decent
Makes sense.

I went on last night with 30 skins and sold every single one in period of three hours. Before it would of taken me 4-5 days to sell that many. I do not know if it was a fluke or people just want them more because of the 10% weight reduction.

BTW I sold them still for 80pp (Luclin Server). I had one person /ooc me and say that the top to pay was 75pp for the backpack. I told him how many I've sold for 80pp and he said that is because high level (50+) players don't care about money. Great! I did not make these backpacks for younger players.

Mugwye
Lvl 30 - Druid
Luclin Server
RE: Hand Made Backpacks
# Apr 10 2001 at 7:56 AM Rating: Decent
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The price may go up when sellers run out of bear skins and buyers offer more when you sell the next batch.

I've gotten some static for selling my imbued mithril boots for 250pp when they cost much less to make. But I'm getting /tells from people who want to buy that I have to turn down because I run out of supplies. In my opinion fair isn't what price you charge but the fact that you charge the same price to everybody. If you charge less to lower lvls then those a little higher who paid the full price may get irritated. And besides low lvls (and everyone really) appreciate it more when they have to make an effort to get it.

Quiick 37 druid
Crystalline Silk
# Apr 08 2001 at 11:53 PM Rating: Default
Where do I get these items:
Silver Thread
Crystalline Silk Swatch

If they are tailored, plz tell me the recipe, thx!
RE: Crystalline Silk
# Apr 18 2001 at 12:59 AM Rating: Default
From Crystalline Spiders in the crystal caverns.
Combine 2 Crytalized Silk to make a Crystalized silk swatch.
Silver Thread is sold in the dwarven city in Velious at the bank at one of the merchants.
Erudite sewing kit
# Apr 08 2001 at 1:05 PM Rating: Decent
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My wife's necro bought the "Erudite sewing kit" in Paineel. Is there anything special about it or is it just another large sewing kit?
RE: Erudite sewing kit
# Apr 25 2001 at 1:27 PM Rating: Decent
Are there other Race - based seewing kits? This is the second time I've heard of this (the 1st being for Halflings), and I'm kinda curious...
Never know what you can sell for a bit more than you paid if you're far enough out in the field... ;)
RE: Erudite sewing kit
# Apr 08 2001 at 10:37 PM Rating: Default
Used to make racial armor for Erudites
Raw Silk pants and tunic
# Apr 07 2001 at 2:46 AM Rating: Default
ok im an idiot didnt read hehe the post that is subject Hanshi is mine =)
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