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Bordeaux Wool fabric swatch

Dressmaker Fabric

Bordeaux Wool

Bordeaux Wool is a Wool fabric available from the start. Its strongest contribution is Gothic +80.

  • Gothic +80
  • Professional +50
  • Mid range
  • Available from the start
Fabric type
Wool
Colours
Red
Use in Dress BuilderFabrics like this

Read from game build 25482629.

Is Bordeaux Wool useful?

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

Good for

Weak for

Nothing it touches goes down.

Cost

Mid range

Cheaper than 63% of the catalogue.

Availability

Available from the start

You have this fabric from the first day, with no relationship level or prestige level in the way.

Style scores

Raises 5 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
Cost
30 · Mid range
Unlock
Available from the start

How to get Bordeaux Wool

Available from the start

You have this fabric from the first day, with no relationship level or prestige level in the way.

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 Bordeaux Wool against the other 351 fabrics, not written by hand.

Commissions where Bordeaux Wool can help

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

No validated dress in this build is sewn from Bordeaux Wool. Rather than list the briefs that would merely allow it, here is where its material, colours and styles are actually asked for.

Briefs that name what this fabric is

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

Wool requirements

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

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.

Check what a dress costs and whether it passes, before you spend the fabric.

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Cheaper or earlier alternatives to Bordeaux Wool

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

Cheaper

The closest cloths that cost less than Bordeaux Wool.

Similar fabrics

Alternatives to Bordeaux Wool, matched on material, colour, style profile and price — with the differences already worked out.

Find alternatives

Hand this fabric to the fabric finder with the question already asked.

Try it in a dress

Everything above is about Bordeaux Wool on its own. These pages are where it becomes a dress.

Bordeaux Wool questions

  • How do I unlock Bordeaux Wool?

    Bordeaux Wool is one of the fabrics you have from the start — it carries no Prestige requirement.

  • What material is Bordeaux Wool?

    Bordeaux Wool is a Wool fabric, and 39 obtainable fabrics share that material.

  • What colour is Bordeaux Wool?

    Bordeaux Wool is tagged Red.

  • What styles does Bordeaux Wool add?

    Bordeaux Wool contributes to Gothic +80, Professional +50 and Simple +50.

  • How much does Bordeaux Wool cost?

    Bordeaux Wool costs 30 — the Mid range band, cheaper than 63% of the catalogue.

  • What commissions can use Bordeaux Wool?

    No validated solution uses Bordeaux Wool directly. The commission board still indexes its material, colours and styles, and the groups above link to each.

The systems behind this page

This page used four rules without teaching them. These are the pages that own them.

Cutting multi-panel pieces from this cloth? Gradients, stripes and prints need their panels lined up by hand. Take me to the pattern matching guide