How to obtain the materials | Clothing ESO guide, tips

Last update: 11 May 2016

The main, and (at least during the early levels) the easiest, way to obtain fibers is to simply extract them from a source, which has a form of a fibrous plant - doing so, you will get from 3 to 4 fibers every time. It is the simplest, yet at the same time the most time-consuming process - to be able to make even the lowest items (Light Armor) from Clothing, you will need from several to over a dozen processed Fabrics, meaning that if you want to create a single item, you will have to find and collect fibers from at least a fibrous plants. Extracting fibers from plants (and processing them into Fabrics) is profitable only during the early, lower levels, when you have little to none access to items, which can be used in the deconstruction process.

When it comes to Hides, the process of collecting is a little different - obviously, there aren't any plants, trees or bushes from which you can collect hide scraps. To get them, you will have to get your hands dirty, by exterminating the nearby monsters. Practically all beast-like enemies from the game drops Hide Scraps (ranging from 1 to even 4) - given the fact, that you will probably murder dozens, if not hundreds of them, it is an extremely efficient way to obtain a lot of Hide Scraps. By linking the useful with the pleasant (collecting materials while gaining experience through killing mobs), you will collect them way faster than while extracting ores from nodes or collecting fibers from fibrous plants.

A lot more efficient method is the mentioned deconstruction. After going through several levels of experience (when the enemies start to drop items made from Cotton and Leather), you will start to collect an absurd quantity of items. Most of them, obviously, will be way weaker than the ones you will have equipped at the time, so you will have to get rid of them, one way or the other.

It is worth doing so in the process of deconstruction, as you will earn insane amounts of experience corresponding to the Clothing skill line (which will be further explained later on). By destroying an item, you have a chance to get from 1 to 3 (according to the quality of the item) Fibers / Hides (depending on the fact, if it's a Light or Medium Armor), as well as a Tannin, a component needed in order to craft an item in a certain style, or a material required to make an item with a given Trait.

The process of deconstruction is fairly simple - to get a desired component, you must destroy an item made from that certain material. If you want to get Spidersilk / Thick Leather, you have to destroy items made from Spidersilk / Thick Leather, and so on. If you want to get a specific material required to make an item with a certain Trait (for instance, a Sapphire, required in order to make an item enhancing the effects of Mundus Stones), you will have to destroy an item with that Trait.

Below you will find a table representing the places (for all 3 fractions), in which you can find specific fibrous plants and beasts, from which you can collect hide scraps upon slaying them:

Fiber / Hide Scrap	Aldmeri Dominion	Daggerfall Covenant	Ebonheart Pact
Raw Jute and Rawhide Scraps	Khenarthi's Roost and Auridon	Stros M'Kai, Betnikh and Glenumbra	Bleakrock Isle, Bal Foyen and Stonefalls
Raw Flax and Hide Scraps	Grahtwood	Stormhaven	Deshaan
Raw Cotton and Leather Scraps	Grahtwood, Greenshade and Malabal Tor	Stormhaven, Rivenspire and Alik'r Desert	Deshaan, Shadowfen and Eastmarch
Raw Spidersilk and Thick Leather Scraps	Greenshade and Malabal Tor	Rivenspire and Alik'r Desert	Shadowfen, Eastmarch and The Rift
Raw Ebonthread and Fell Hide Scraps	Reaper's March, Coldharbour and Cyrodiil	Bangkorai, Coldharbour and Cyrodiil	The Rift, Coldharbour and Cyrodil
Raw Kreshweed and Topgrain Hide Scraps	Cyrodiil, Stonefalls and Deshaan	Cyrodiil, Auridon and Grahtwood	Cyrodil and Glenumbra
Raw Ironweed and Iron Hide Scraps	Shadowfen, East March and The Rift	Greenshade, Malabal Tor and Reaper's March	Rivenspire, Alik'r Desert and Bangkorai
Raw Silverweed and Superb Hide Scraps	Glenumbra and Stormhaven	Stonefalls and Deshaan	Aurodon and Grahtwood
Raw Void Bloom and Shadowide Scraps	Rivenspire, Alik'r Desert and Bangkorai	Shadowfen, Eastmarch and The Rift	Greenshade, Malabal Tor and Reaper's March