Materials | Clothing ESO guide, tips

Last update: 11 May 2016

You have read from the previous section, in Clothing (as well as in Blacksmithing and Woodworking) there are 9 materials available (9 fibers and 9 hides), from which you can create your items.

For Fibers (to create Light Armor) those are: Jute (available from the beginning of the game), Flax, Cotton, Spidersilk, Ebonthread, Kreshweed, Ironthread, Silverweave, Void Cloth.

As far as Hides go (in order to create Medium Armor) those are: Rawhide (available from the beginning of the game), Hide, Leather, Thick Leather, Fell Hide, Topgrain Hide, Iron Hide, Superb Hide, Daedra Hide.

Obviously, you have to spend quite a lot of time before you reach the level of expertise to be able to craft items from the highest quality materials. Nonetheless, the benefits compensate for the time spent.

The following table represent the following: plant fibers, fabrics created after processing them, as well as the range of levels, required to be able to craft something from those materials:

Fiber	Icon	Fabric	Icon	Range of levels
Raw Jute		Jute		1 - 14
Raw Flax		Flax		16 - 24
Raw Cotton		Cotton		26 - 34
Raw Spidersilk		Spidersilk		36 - 44
Raw Ebonthread		Ebonthread		46 - 50
Raw Kreshweed		Kresh Fiber		Veteran 1 - 3
Raw Ironweed		Ironthread		Veteran 4 - 6
Raw Silverweed		Silverweave		Veteran 7 - 8
Raw Void Bloom		Void Cloth		Veteran 9 - 10

And here's the table representing the hides:

Hide Scraps	Icon	Hide	Icon	Range of levels
Rawhide Scraps		Rawhide		1 - 14
Hide Scraps		Hide		16 - 24
Leather Scraps		Leather		26 - 34
Thich Leather Scraps		Thick Leather		36 - 44
Fell Hide Scraps		Fellhide		46 - 50
Topgrain Hide Scraps		Topgrain Hide		Veteran 1 - 3
Iron Hide Scraps		Iron Hide		Veteran 4 - 6
Superb Hide Scraps		Superb Hide		Veteran 7 - 8
Shadowhide Scraps		Shadowhide		Veteran 9 - 10

It should be noted, that in order to process a certain fiber / scrap into a fabric / hide, you will need 10 units of a given fiber / scrap - in order to create Flax, you will need 10 Raw Flax, and to create Leather, you will need 10 Leather Scraps, and so on. For every process, you will receive from 7 to 10 units of Fabric / Hide, as well as (though it's quite rare) a chance to receive one of the Tannins - the quality of a Tannin increases with the subsequent tiers of items, that is for processing Jute / Rawhide you can get as much as a Hemming.

There is a total of 4 Tannins available to you, which serve the purpose of upgrading the items from Clothing:

Icon	Name and description of a Tannin	How to obtain
	Hemming - allows you to upgrade an item from white (Normal) to green (Fine). By default (without investing in Tannin Expertise), each Hemming increases the chance to upgrade an item by 20%.	From an Outfitter Hireling and / or from the process of deconstruction of green (Fine) items.
	Embroidery - allows you to upgrade an item from green (Fine) to blue (Superior). By default (without investing in Tannin Expertise), each Embroidery increases the chance to upgrade an item by 15%.	From an Outfitter Hireling and / or from the process of deconstruction of blue (Superior) items.
	Elegant Lining - allows you to upgrade an item from blue (Superior) to purple (Epic). By default (without investing in Tannin Expertise), each Elegant Lining increases the chance to upgrade an item by 10%.	From an Outfitter Hireling and / or from the process of deconstruction of purple (Epic) items.
	Dreugh Wax - allows you to upgrade an item from purple (Epic) to gold (Legendary). By default (without investing in Tannin Expertise), each Dreugh Wax increases the chance to upgrade an item by 5%.	From an Outfitter Hireling and / or from the process of deconstruction of gold (Legendary) items.

It is worth sticking to one, golden rule, if it comes to Tannins - try to not use them at all while being on the lower levels of experience. The reason for this is simple - in a couple of hours (depending on your level), you will swap out most (if not all) of your equipment (you will either find it, get it as a quest reward, or simply create it on your own), and all the Tannins used in the previous, now unwanted items, will be lost forever.

It is the most important in the case of rarer Tannins (like Elegant Lining and Dreugh Wax), which are much more difficult to obtain, thus being way more valuable - even if you don't want to do anything with Clothing (and any other branch of crafting), you can easily sell those Tannins to other players, gaining a considerable amount of money in the process.