Tailor
| Professions |
|---|
| Gathering: |
| Farmer, Forester, Prospector |
| Producing: |
| Cook, Jeweller, Metalsmith, Scholar, Tailor, Weaponsmith, Woodworker |
| Crafting Guide, Crafted Items |
"A skilled tailor can make simple clothing from common cloth, but with time and practice they can learn to create garments of great beauty that provide significant protection to their wearer. The Tailor can also work with tanned hides to produce leather armor – light, tough and suitable for travel."
Tailored armour is an essential alternative for those classes that cannot wear heavy armour; for instance, a Burglar whose stealth depends on not clunking around like a tin can, or a Minstrel who needs the freedom of movement to perform motivational flourishes on a delicate instrument. A Tailor produces pieces of light and medium armour that protect the wearer and can provide other bonuses. These pieces range from common rough cloth to the finest Elven silk, depending on the skill of the tailor.
A guide to attaining Tailor Mastery
Required Tools
Materials
A list of all component items that are used to craft Tailor recipes: Tailor Components
For crafting clothing and armour, a Tailor uses boiled leathers, which are created by a Forester. An Explorer Tailor is also a Forester and will be able to gather and boil animal hides into usable leather on his own. Armourer and Yeoman Tailors will not have this ability, and need to find a Forester who will convert their hides to leather. A number of advanced recipes requires Crafting Rare Components.
- Hides can be harvested by characters by defeating Beasts. These pieces of animal hide have a chance to drop from those types of Creatures.
- The following Professions can use the leather for materials in their own crafting recipes:
Hide Index
Tailors also use bolts of cloth and thread for sewing; these items can be purchased from Novice and Expert Tailor NPCs and from Suppliers.
Critical Success
To critically succeed while crafting item, a Tailor must have achieved proficiency in the crafting tier for that item. After gaining proficiency, the base chance to achieve critical success is 5%.
- Using player-crafted Tailor's Tools increases that base chance.
- Click through to the tools index to view the percentage for any given tool.
- Scrolls of crafting lore (produced by a Scholar) give a 1-minute buff, further increasing the chance of a critical success.
- These scrolls provide tiered increases to the crit chance, but they are tiered by player level, not crafting level. Thus, a level 7 Supreme Master Tailor can only use the Minor Tailoring Lore that gives a 1% crit chance increase, but a level 65 Master Apprentice Tailor can use a Scroll of Supreme Tailoring Lore that gives a 12.5% increase.
- Certain recipes have an optional ingredient, flax fibres; the type of flax fibre used is based on the crafting level of any given recipe, but using flax fibre in any level gives a flat (not tiered) increase of 45% to the crit chance.
Tailor Mastery Components
A complete list of Tailor Mastery Components.
| Mastery Component | Tier Level | Recipes |
|---|---|---|
 Common Flax Fibre |
Apprentice | Most Tier 1 Recipes |
 Bree Flax Fibre |
Journeyman | Most Tier 2 Recipes |
 Pale Flax Fibre |
Expert | Most Tier 3 Recipes |
 Yellow Flax Fibre |
Artisan | Most Tier 4 Recipes |
 Golden Flax Fibre |
Master | Most Tier 5 Recipes |
 Fairy Flax Fibre |
Supreme | Most Tier 6 Recipes |
 Drop of Birch-tar |
Westfold | Most Tier 7 Recipes |
 Piece of Oak Bark |
Eastemnet | Most Tier 8 Recipes |
 Piece of Walnut Bark |
Westemnet | Most Tier 9 Recipes |
 Piece of Poplar Bark |
Anórien | Most Tier 10 Recipes |
 Piece of Doomfold Bark |
Doomfold | Most Tier 11 Recipes |
 Piece of Thornholt Bark |
Ironfold | Most Tier 12 Recipes |
 Piece of Mordor Snag Bark |
Minas Ithil | Most Tier 13 Recipes |
 Piece of Gundabad Bark |
Gundabad | Most Tier 14 Recipes |
 Piece of Shagâni Bark |
Umbar | Most Tier 15 Recipes |
Recipes
- A complete list of Tailor recipe indexes by tier
- A complete list of recipes listed alphabetically
- An index of items that can be crafted using Tailor recipes
| Tailor Recipe Index
| ||
|---|---|---|
| Apprentice • Journeyman • Expert • Artisan • Master • Supreme • Westfold • Eastemnet • Westemnet • Anórien • Doomfold • Ironfold • Minas Ithil • Gundabad • Umbar |
Crafting Guild
Crafting Guilds are Reputation factions that grant advantages in recipe execution. Reputation is increased by bartering special crafted items. Membership in a Crafting Guild used to be exclusive - you can be a member of 2 crafting guilds at a time (as of Update 25).[1]
Tailors of all levels are eligible to join the Tailor's Guild, but the guild recipes require Expert tier and above. To join a crafting guild one must first speak to a Master of Crafting Guilds, and they are always found in the vicinity of a guild hall and at many other locations. Then, travel to the Craft-hall of Esteldín, in the North Downs and speak with Guild Leader Hambrennil to continue the quest. The Tailor's Guild-hall is found inside the craft hall, to the south.
NOTE: since Update 27, players may find the guild NPCs located in the House of Craft in Minas Tirith (Midsummer) [23.2N, 54.9W] to be preferable to Esteldín, particularly if the crafter has a second guildable profession -- Metalsmith for Armourer or Cooking for Yeoman -- it can also be guilded in the same location in Minas Tirith (Midsummer), thus obviating a separate trip. Minas Tirith (Midsummer) is available to characters of all levels. At Minas Tirith (Midsummer), the pattern (Reputation Item) recipes are purchased from the Guild-leader; there is no separate NPC for guild-reputation-item recipes, as there is in other locations. The only downside of Minas Tirith (Midsummer) is that the "Introduction" quests for each guilded profession cannot be turned into the Guild-leader, since those quests require a specific named NPC, who does not reside there.
![[23.2N, 54.9W]](/wiki/File:Minas_Tirith_(Midsummer)_map.jpg){kind=link}
Quests
Class Quests
Using your Skills
Reputation Quests
The following quests gives reputation for Rangers of Esteldín:
- [38] Ranger's Sashes -- Introduction
- [45] Rangers' Cloaks -- Introduction
- [49] Tapestry of Deeds -- Introduction
Quest Reward
- [50] Valuable Heartwood rewards 10
Exceptional Hide
NPCs
Novice Tailors
Expert Tailors
Named NPC expert Tailors. There are numerous unnamed.
Further Reading
- Quick Level Guide - A small overview of the amount of hides needed, if you only want to craft components to level up Tailoring
- ↑ LOTRO Forums: Update 25 Crafting Change Notice