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Mercury Silk fabric swatch

Dressmaker Fabric

Mercury Silk

Mercury Silk is a Silk fabric that unlocks at Prestige 33. Its strongest contribution is Elegant +50.

  • Elegant +50
  • Eveningwear +50
  • Mid range
  • Prestige 33
Fabric type
Silk
Colours
Grey
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Read from game build 25482629.

Is Mercury Silk 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

Prestige level 33

Unlocks when your prestige reaches 33. Every fabric in the game unlocks on prestige; none of them come from a character's relationship ladder.

Style scores

Raises 8 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
Prestige 33

How to get Mercury Silk

Prestige level 33

Unlocks when your prestige reaches 33. Every fabric in the game unlocks on prestige; none of them come from a character's relationship ladder.

Opens earlier than 67% 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 Mercury Silk against the other 351 fabrics, not written by hand.

Commissions where Mercury Silk 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 Mercury Silk. 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 Mercury Silk's material, colours and styles, so each of these opens on the briefs that ask for one of them.

Silk requirements

Briefs that ask for a share of Silk in the dress. Any Silk 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 Mercury Silk

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 Mercury Silk.

Available earlier

The closest cloths that unlock before Mercury Silk does.

Similar fabrics

Alternatives to Mercury Silk, 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 Mercury Silk on its own. These pages are where it becomes a dress.

Mercury Silk questions

  • How do I unlock Mercury Silk?

    Mercury Silk unlocks when your Prestige reaches 33, and that is the only gate on it: cloth never comes from a character relationship.

  • What material is Mercury Silk?

    Mercury Silk is a Silk fabric, and 112 obtainable fabrics share that material.

  • What colour is Mercury Silk?

    Mercury Silk is tagged Grey.

  • What styles does Mercury Silk add?

    Mercury Silk contributes to Elegant +50, Eveningwear +50 and Formal +50.

  • How much does Mercury Silk cost?

    Mercury Silk costs 30 — the Mid range band, cheaper than 63% of the catalogue.

  • What commissions can use Mercury Silk?

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

  • What can I use before Mercury Silk unlocks at Prestige 33?

    Cloths that unlock earlier and do a similar job: Grey-Dient Silk, Taupe Silk and Parrot Fish Gradient Silk.

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