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Fantasy Wardrobe: Fabrics

We often call clothes silk when they are satin, velvet where they are velveteen or we have no clue what we’re on about. So today let’s look at fabrics.

Laying down the law

Many renaissance/mediaeval societies governed over who could wear what. By adding these laws you had a layer of depth to your world.

Women and men could only be dressed n clothes benefiting their position

Female servants or their daughters could not wear veils costing more than twelve pence

Knightly families could not wear cloth of gold or sable fur or velvets

The wife or daughter of a labourer were not to wear clothes beyond a certain price or a girdle garnished with silver

Cloth of gold and purple silk only worn by the royal family. This goes for ermine.

The importation of silk and lace foreigners was prohibited when the kingdom produced those textiles.

Peasant Clothing (Beggars to Merchant classes)

Wool: This was the staple of much of the clothes owned by peasants. It was in supply and it wasn’t as costly as most fabrics when undyed. It was also warm.

Linen: Forget about softness. Peasant linen was made of coarser weaves and flax. It was heavier than noble linen.

Cotton: A lightweight fabric used in hotter climates. It was softer than the linen and airier.

Fustian: heavy cloth woven from cotton, for menswear.

Leather: Leather was used for boots and shoes rather than killer jackets.

Nobility & Royalty

Cloth of Gold: Cloth made from woven threads of gold (very expensive)

Cloth of silver: cloth made from woven silver strands (very expensive)

Samite: a rich silk fabric woven with gold and silver threads

Tulle: A netting sort of material

Brocade: rich silk fabric with raised patterns sewn on it.

Cambresine: fine, lightweight linen

Cambric: thin white cotton or linen

Cypress: gauze made of cotton or silk

Damask: like brocade but the patterns are flat

Delaine : light wool/mixed wool and cotton

Lawn: sheer plain-woven cotton or linen

Sarsenet: fine and soft silk

Sateen: glossy cotton or wool

Satin: closely woven silk, shiny

Taffeta: Thickly woven silk

Velvet : piled fabric of silk, cotton or synthetic material

Velvetine: cotton with silk pile

Saxony: fine, delicate woollen fabric

Alençon Lace: intricate floral lace with three-dimensional corded detail sewn onto a fine tulle backing

Chantilly Lace: lightest of lace

Charmeuse: smooth, flowing, silk, cotton,

Chiffon: sheer and lightweight fabric

Crepe de Chine: thicker, lightly textured silk

Dupioni: crisp lusturous silk

Organza: sheer and lightweight fabric of very fine weave silk

Georgette: sheer fabric of silk

Guipure Lace: heavier lace

Designs

Embroidery: Patterns sewn on the fabric by thread

Appliqué: decorative fabric, often lace or floral motifs, sewn onto the main material

Embellishment: details such as beads, crystals, sequins, pearls

Trim: a line of material or fur that finishes off a hem or cuff.

Piping: a cord lining the fabric creating a ribbed look.

Colours

Here are the colours that you will catch your people wearing. Keep in mind that dyes had to be sourced and could be very expensive.

Peasant: brown, red or gray.

Nobility: Gold, silver, crimson or scarlet, deep indigo blue, violet colors and even deep black and pure white colors

Royalty: Purple

Furs

Mink: Soft and lightweight, silkly and glossy furs

Fox: Long, lustrous, colourful and easy to dye.

Ermine: White fur streaked with black (ONLY FOR ROYALTY)

Sable: long, luxurious, dense but light.

Wolf: thick, tough, warm but has a bad smell

Vair: fur from a red squirrel really only used for trimming.

Out of context things that happen in ESO

Woman asks local hero if she should murder her daughter in her sleep

Dog tries to kill god and throw a comet at everyone. Also bites innocent bystander. His owner gets mad at you when you scold the dog.

Four legged cat encourages bipedal cat to commit suicide and gets really upset when you interfere. is bored of cheese

Another four legged cat has a drinking problem, but wants to help in a heist anyway

Lizard is murdered by long lost sister, but to be fair he was trying to kill her first

Disaster man has to dig a giant egg out of poop and accidentally gets someone else killed in the process

Local assassin confesses crimes to priest, is surprised when she gets in trouble

Slaver with a lizard fetish leaves evidence all over volcanic island

Indiana Jones gets shoved down a well but nobody feels bad because he has an enormous ego

Game of Thrones, but with orcs

Local populace has a zombie problem but they don’t want to be rude by killing the zombies personally, can you do it for them?

Vampire adopts many vampire babies, sacrifices himself to vampire god, makes vampire babies cry

Old man who yells at cloud accidentally sets dragons on an entire fucking country

Lots of sexual tension between worm guy and anti-worm guy

Local mum fucking hates it when plague people move in to her sewers

Clockwork dad is so depressed he sits around and does jack shit for an entire DLC and uses you as therapist after. gets made fun of by spider mom. continues to make sad faces

Local bigender parent goes to sleep, doesn’t notice while dog assassinates his best friend

If masturbation is witchcraft, then I'm the motherfucking Arch Mage!

Penis Galerion

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jesus is in the corner of my room

insanity

“Who can fix this? It can’t be fixed. This is the way things are now, until we die. The gods have left Cyrodiil. I wish you all luck, but you won’t find it.”

–The final line of the final issue of The Chorrol Crier.

fun, random questions

Do you have any “yeah I’m good at it but I hate it” kind of skills?

If you could make one type of food cease to exist, what would you banish?

You’re allowed to know everything about one highly specific thing/topic. What would you choose?

What’s a fictional character who you want to be like? In what way do you want to be like them?

If you had to live in and not leave a city for the rest of your life, what city would you choose?

Do you tend to say what you’re thinking? What would people think of you if you did the opposite? 

Is there anything that you’ve done/experienced so much you hate it now? Easiest to come up with are like, food or music. 

Were you afraid of anything “silly”/irrational as a child that you’ve since outgrown?

If you were to impart one moral lesson (think Aesop’s fables, Golden Rule, etc) on the world, what would it be? 

If you were a DND character or a game character (or something like that) what would your highest stat be? What would you want your highest stat to be? What about the lowest, to both of those?

Is there anything you judge others for when you probably shouldn’t?

Who are “your kind” of people?

If you had to come up with your last words right now… what would they be?

Do you have any “weirdly strong” opinions about things that don’t really matter?

Your goal is to completely confuse the people around you in as short a time as possible– what do you say/do?

What’s the most comfy place you’ve been in?

Did you have any “silly” beliefs as a kid? Where did they come from (parents, friends, out of nowhere, etc)?

If you were to add or remove one physical feature to yourself… what would it be? Can be from animals, can be from imagination… whatever. 

What could you happily give a two hour lecture on?

What would a mirror opposite version of yourself be like? It doesn’t necessarily have to be an evil version– any feature can be reflected! 

What’s an occasion you’ve done a double take? 

If you could only see one color (and its varying shades– dark/light) for the rest of your life… what would you choose?

Do your friends all share certain qualities? Major or minor! 

How do you motivate yourself to do things?

What’s one of your favorite jokes? Tell it to us! 

Gwendis, Melina, and Cassian: [popping a bag of popcorn with a destruction staff at 3 am]

Adusa-daro: [walks in]

Gwendis:

Melina:

Cassian:

Adusa-daro:

Melina: Let’s be real, this is not the dumbest thing you’ve caught us doing.