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knnn:
So what are clothes made of?  You've apparently got the skin from the vats and spidersilk, but that's pretty much it I would think.  No wool, cotton.

Second Aristh:
We know that the ethersilk is rare since they can't effectively tame the silkweavers (btw I pictured them as giant centipedes instead of spiders).  I don't see all of the dresses being made of leather though. 

knnn:

--- Quote from: Second Aristh on October 09, 2015, 06:20:47 PM ---We know that the ethersilk is rare since they can't effectively tame the silkweavers (btw I pictured them as giant centipedes instead of spiders).  I don't see all of the dresses being made of leather though.

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There's also a comment about how an all silk shirt is very expensive.  Even if the clothes were all skin/leather, you still kinda need to sew things together.  That pretty much requires cotton/flax/fur/hair.

wyltok:
Considering the fact that both Gwen's skirts and Benny's shirt were used to make bandages, I think it's safe to say that most clothing is made of natural fibers. From Gwen's reaction to the Temple's garden, my money's on hydroponics as a source of fibers for clothing.

There are plenty of fiber producing plants that can serve double duty (the flax used to make linen, for example, may also be used to generate linseed oil, hemp plants also produce, shall we say, "medicinal" compounds, and apparently sisal is so versatile it can even be used as a bio-fuel source).

Given the somewhat anachronistic setting, I wouldn't be surprised if rayon was also out there; while it's cheapest when made from wood fiber, from what I read in the Wikipedia article, it can be made from any cellulose source.

knnn:

--- Quote from: wyltok on October 09, 2015, 06:54:51 PM ---Considering the fact that both Gwen's skirts and Benny's shirt were used to make bandages, I think it's safe to say that most clothing is made of natural fibers. From Gwen's reaction to the Temple's garden, my money's on hydroponics as a source of fibers for clothing.

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Nice references!

I think I agree that it would pretty much have to be hydorponics.  There's simply not enough depth of soil in the ground to grow things.  No rivers to move minerals around, etc.  Then again, even with hydroponics, you still need nutrients and water to grow things.  I suppose the water can be extracted from the clouds outside the spire, but you still need the nutrient solution.  I think it's sustainable with steam-tech, but I submit that to start up the process would require advanced understanding of how things work.  Just another example of how things have degraded since "the Builders".
 

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