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Black Magic Velvet fabric swatch

Dressmaker Fabric

Black Magic Velvet

Black Magic Velvet is a Velvet fabric that unlocks at Prestige 35. Its strongest contribution is Gothic +80.

  • Gothic +80
  • Elegant +50
  • Expensive
  • Prestige 35
Fabric type
Velvet
Colours
Black

Read from game build 25482629.

Is Black Magic Velvet useful?

Four answers, all read from the game's own numbers.

Weak for

Nothing it touches goes down.

Cost

Expensive

Cheaper than 50% of the catalogue.

Availability

Prestige level 35

Unlocks when your prestige reaches 35. Every fabric in the game unlocks on prestige; none of them come from a character's relationship ladder.

Style scores

Raises 10 styles and lowers 0.

Fabric style scores add to the final style of your dress together with its patterns and accessories. A negative weight is a contribution too: cloth that lowers Formal is exactly what a brief asking for low Formal wants. How far it moves the score also depends on which part of the dress carries it.

How style scores add up

Properties

Fabric type
Colours

How to get Black Magic Velvet

Prestige level 35

Unlocks when your prestige reaches 35. Every fabric in the game unlocks on prestige; none of them come from a character's relationship ladder.

Opens earlier than 70% of the gated fabrics.

Your Prestige

This page answers from the Prestige level you enter; it never guesses one.

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Where this fabric works well

Read from Black Magic Velvet against the other 351 fabrics, not written by hand.

Commissions where Black Magic Velvet can help

Dresses the game itself validates with this fabric, and the requirement of each brief that the fabric answers.

Briefs that name what this fabric is

The commission board already indexes Black Magic Velvet's material, colours and styles, so each of these opens on the briefs that ask for one of them.

Velvet requirements

Briefs that ask for a share of Velvet in the dress. Any Velvet cloth contributes — none of them names this fabric.

Colour requirements

Briefs that ask for a share of this colour. This fabric can contribute; the brief does not name it.

Style requirements

Briefs that ask for the styles this fabric moves. Moving a style is a contribution, not a guarantee.

Material and colour requirements are measured as a share of the finished garment, so the same cloth on a larger part counts for more than it does on a collar.

Lay out Kroq's Wish on the solver's board and try this fabric against it.

Open in the solver

Cheaper or earlier alternatives to Black Magic Velvet

Two things put a fabric out of reach: the price and the gate. Both are answered with named cloths below.

Try it in a dress

Everything above is about Black Magic Velvet on its own. These pages are where it becomes a dress.

Black Magic Velvet questions

  • How do I unlock Black Magic Velvet?

    Black Magic Velvet unlocks when your Prestige reaches 35, and that is the only gate on it: cloth never comes from a character relationship.

  • What material is Black Magic Velvet?

    Black Magic Velvet is a Velvet fabric, and 55 obtainable fabrics share that material.

  • What colour is Black Magic Velvet?

    Black Magic Velvet is tagged Black.

  • What styles does Black Magic Velvet add?

    Black Magic Velvet contributes to Gothic +80, Elegant +50 and Eveningwear +50.

  • How much does Black Magic Velvet cost?

    Black Magic Velvet costs 40 — the Expensive band, cheaper than 50% of the catalogue.

  • What commissions can use Black Magic Velvet?

    Validated commission solutions using Black Magic Velvet: 2.

  • What can I use before Black Magic Velvet unlocks at Prestige 35?

    Cloths that unlock earlier and do a similar job: Midnight Black Velvet, Capricorn Burnout Velvet and Starry Night Velvet.