Cloth, wool and leather

Cloth is made the old way, step by step, and every step is a recipe in crafting.

Cotton

• Gin cotton bolls by hand to get ginned cotton.
• Card it with Hand Carders, made at the workbench.
• Spin carded cotton into yarn on a Spinning Wheel. Yarn also twists into thread.
• Weave yarn into Cloth, or a lot of it into Canvas, on a Floor Loom.

Wool

• Shear a sheep for a Raw Fleece. See Animals and homestead.
• Wash it in the Scouring Tubs with water and soap.
• Card it, then spin it into wool. One fleece makes four wool.
• Weave wool into cloth on the loom, or knit a warm sweater by hand with Knitting Needles.

Sheepskin

Tan a sheepskin on the Tanning Rack with salt and tanning liquor. Three tanned sheepskins, leather and thread make a Shearling Coat at the Tailor's Bench, one of the warmest things you can wear.

Every step is slow by hand, the way it really was. Keep a stock of yarn and thread so a torn coat doesn't wait on a week of spinning.