Loom

Loom

Class	Workstation
Type	Workstation
Recipes	3
Crafts	Farming
Location	Found in buildings

The Loom is a large weaving frame for turning thread and plant fibre into cloth. The game describes it as a station for weaving cloth from Thread or Hemp.

It sits at the end of the fibre line in Farming. Flax is dried, rippled, scutched and heckled, then spun into Thread at the Spinning Wheel. Raw Wool becomes Thread at the wheel as well. Hemp goes to the loom after scutching. The loom then weaves these into Burlap Piece, Cheese Cloth or a Cotton Fabric Roll. This loom stands in the world as furniture and is found rather than built.

The cloth it makes is the raw material of Tailoring. Burlap Piece goes into shirts, pants, dresses, sacks and wraps. A Cotton Fabric Roll goes into cotton clothing, pillows and teddy bears. Cheese Cloth serves the oil press. A farm that grows hemp or flax, or keeps sheep, can clothe itself through this loom.

How to Use Loom

Weaving runs as a recipe at the loom. The fibre or thread is the whole input, and the finished cloth comes out. That keeps weaving simple once enough thread is spun.

The work is all in gathering the fibre beforehand.

The loom can be picked up and moved like other furniture. That lets a survivor carry a found loom home to the fibre stations. It is a heavy piece to carry.

Thread reaches the loom from the Spinning Wheel. Flax (Heckled) spins into Thread, and so does Raw Wool. Thread can also be looted from tailoring stores. Hemp Dogbane, a wild plant found by foraging, also weaves straight into burlap.

Crafting Recipes

Weave Burlap turns scutched hemp into a Burlap Piece. Hemp Dogbane works in place of the hemp. Burlap is the quickest cloth to make, since it skips the spinning step.

Weave Cheesecloth turns Thread into Cheese Cloth. It takes a modest amount of thread.

Weave Cloth turns a very large amount of Thread into a Cotton Fabric Roll. This is the big project of the loom. A full roll needs a long run of spinning first.

Cheese Cloth is a kept tool in Press Oil at the Hand-Operated Press. One cloth serves for every pressing. That press turns Seed Paste from flax or hemp seed into Vegetable Oil. The flax line therefore gives both the cloth and the oil.

Every recipe here asks for no skill and are known from the start.

Every recipe made at the Loom is listed with what it uses up, the tools it hands back and the skill it asks for. A "Yes" under Learned means the recipe has to be learned before it shows up.

Name	Recipe	Crafting Materials	Tools	Skill	Learned	Spawn ID
Burlap Piece	Weave Burlap	3x Hemp (Scutched) or Hemp Dogbane	-	None	No	`/additem Base.BurlapPiece`
Cheese Cloth	Weave Cheesecloth	20x Thread	-	None	No	`/additem Base.CheeseCloth`
Cotton Fabric Roll	Weave Cloth	400x Thread	-	None	No	`/additem Base.FabricRoll_Cotton`

Station Tiers

The Simple Loom runs exactly the same recipes. A survivor without a found loom can build the Simple Loom from logs, long sticks and cord at Carpentry level 3. Both looms weave the same cloth, so the choice comes down to which one is closer.

The Loom shares its recipes with the stations below. A higher station runs everything a lower one runs.

Name	Image	Recipes	Build Skill	Compared
Loom		3	-	This station
Simple Loom		3	Carpentry: 3	Runs the same recipes

Locations

A loom stands on the second floor of the Coalfield Inn.

Notes

The tooltip reads: for weaving cloth from Thread or Hemp.
Weave Burlap takes scutched hemp straight from the board, so hemp gives cloth fastest.
A Cotton Fabric Roll takes a great deal of Thread, so spin in long sessions before weaving.
Cheese Cloth is kept when pressing oil, so one piece lasts.
The loom is furniture and can be moved to a base.

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