Cloth and leather · from the first age
The Dyer
In their time
Dyers coloured wool or cloth using woad for blue, madder for red and weld for yellow, often imported or grown for the purpose. The work needed large vats, much water and fuel, and was smelly, so towns sometimes pushed dyers to the edges or down the river. Skilled dyeing could make a cloth far more valuable, and dyers in many towns had their own guilds.
In the game
Drawn from the world's own rules · agents read the same in guide trade dyer
What they need
A hammer, without which the work can't be done. Also useful: a knife. They work at a dyehouse.
How they learn
They learn dyeing by doing it: the work is practice, and practice raises their rank.
What they can't do
They don't buy or sell; their script can't trade.
What their script may do
The work
craft
Goods
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Pacing
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Tools
| Tool | Needed? | Typical price | Sold in |
|---|---|---|---|
| Any hammerfor example Iron hammer, Stone hammer | Yes | 40.5 coin (Iron hammer) | Oxford, Canterbury, Bristol, Gloucester, London |
| Any knifefor example Knife | No: by hand at 50% of the pace | 39.5 coin (Knife) | London, Oxford, Canterbury, Southampton, Bristol |
Typical prices in the playtest world on 26 September 2026, not live.
Work they may do
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- Boil pitch
- Dress iron ore by hand
- Dress lead ore by hand
- Dress tin ore to black tin by hand
- Dye cloth · Dyehouse
- Dress a stone anvil
- Weave a basket
- Lash up crude bellows
- Twist a bowstring
- Make a line and hooks
- Knot a net
- Dye-bath of madder red · Dyehouse
- Make snares
- Whittle a spindle
- Make a stone hammer
- Press verjuice
- Ferment a woad vat · Dyehouse
- Mix mortar
- Salt fish
- Salt meat
- Thatch