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40d:Clothing industry
This article is a quick guide to running a self-sufficient clothing industry.
First grow and harvest the plants, then process the plants to thread, next weave the thread into cloth, and finally turn the cloth into clothes.
Plants
Requires: A farm, a farmer, and the appropriate seeds
There are six crops that you can grow that are used in the clothing industry. Note that if you don't want to grow them you can trade for them or, if they are an above ground crop, you can gather them.
Under ground
- Pig tails are used to make thread, and can be grown in Summer and Autumn.
- Dimple cups are used to make dye, and can be grown all year round.
Above ground
- Rope reed is used to make thread, and can be grown all year round.
- Hide root, Sliver barb and Blade weed can be used to make dye, and can be grown all year round.
If your intent is to produce equal volumes of thread and dye (so that all of your thread can be dyed) then you could establish a year-round growing cycle with two equally-sized plots above and below ground as follows. This is not the only way to do it, but it is an example of a growing plan that will keep a thresher, a dyer, and a weaver employed year-round.
| Spring | Summer | Autumn | Winter | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Underground | Dimple cup | Pig tail | Pig tail | Dimple cup |
| Above ground | Rope reed | Sliver barb | Blade weed | Rope reed |
This will give you one cloth crop and one dye crop each season. Hide root is omitted here because it adds less value than the other dyes.
Thread
Requires: A farmer's workshop, a thresher, and the appropriate plant
Once you have harvested the plants you must process the pig tails and/or rope weed at the farmer's workshop. Alternatively you can trade for thread directly.
In the farmer's workshop there are several options for processing plants: either to bag, barrel, vial, or normal. To create thread you want to select normal. The other options produce different products, such as dye and flour.
Cloth
Requires: A loom, a weaver, and some thread
By default any thread produced will be automatically woven at the loom. You may want to Set Workshop Orders only weave dyed thread.
Clothes
Requires: A clothier's shop, a clothier, and some cloth
Once the cloth is ready you can sew it into clothes, either for trading or for your own dwarves to wear.
Dyeing
Dyeing is very useful because it adds to the value of the finished clothes. You can dye either thread or cloth to increase its value. Cloth created from dyed thread cannot be dyed.
Creating dye
Requires: A mill or quern, a miller, an empty bag, and the appropriate plant
Once you have harvested or bought the plants, you can mill them into dye.
Using dye
Requires: A dyer's shop, a dyer, and some dye
Having the dye, you can dip the clothes or thread into it to increase its value.
Summary
Required worker / labor
- Grower / Field working
- Thresher / Plant processor
- Weaver / Weaving
- Clothier / Clothes making
- Miller / Milling
- Dyer / Dyeing
Required buildings
- Farm
- Farmer's workshop
- Loom
- Clothier's shop
- Either a Millstone or a Quern
- A Millstone requires a millstone item and a power connection. A Quern only requires a quern item.
- Dyer's shop which also requires
See Also