UO Tailoring Skill Guide

Tailoring is the cloth-and-leather crafting skill in Ultima Online. Armed with a sewing kit, a tailor turns bolts of cloth, leather and animal hides into clothing, hats, footwear and several classes of light armor. It is a strong companion to hunting skills, since the hides and bones dropped by slain creatures feed straight back into the tailor's recipes.

The trade covers everything from plain shirts and dresses to studded and bone armor sets, ninja garb, and decorative pieces. Leather-based armor keeps the color of the dyed hides used to make it, so tailors are also the source of matched, colored outfits and armor suits that many players wear.

Gain by crafting items of appropriate difficulty. Recycle (cut up) results to reclaim materials. A Salvage Bag speeds this up.

An exceptional item from a Grandmaster tailor is sturdier and, where allowed, carries the maker's name. Each entry in the sewing menu notes whether the piece can be signed, holds its material color, or needs a recipe first. Points to keep in mind:

• Maker's Mark: exceptional pieces in most categories can bear the crafter's name for added value.
• Retains Color: the garment or armor keeps the color of the cloth or hides it was sewn from.
• Requires Recipe: a handful of items, such as elven quivers, only unlock once you own the recipe.
• Skill Required: the figure shown is the entry point for attempting an item and does not mean automatic success.
• A tailoring talisman raises your effective skill and exceptional odds; enter its values in the page calculator to see your adjusted chances.

Training tailoring is smoothest when you keep making the cheapest item you can still fail on occasionally, then step up as your odds approach certainty. The summary below shows how the menu is divided and the skill range within each section.

These inexpensive, low-skill items are ideal for the opening stretch of training: