Yeah, while it takes a lot of time to weave cloth with ancient methods, manpower was still something much cheaper back in those days compared to more modern days. The price shouldn't be that extravagant. It should probably be what a craftsman of equivalent skill would earn for working that amount of time. I forget the exact currency values for that world, but it definitely shouldn't be an amount you can live comfortably with for a much longer period of time than it takes to create those clothes.Weaving a clothes is one of the most ancient knowledge next to farming and hunting. It shouldn't be cost more than smithing (creating a tool) or sculpting (creating an ornament or building architecture)
i am somewhat bothered with clothes cost gold to make. Weaving a clothes is one of the most ancient knowledge next to farming and hunting. It shouldn't be cost more than smithing (creating a tool) or sculpting (creating an ornament or building architecture)
Yeah, while it takes a lot of time to weave cloth with ancient methods, manpower was still something much cheaper back in those days compared to more modern days. The price shouldn't be that extravagant. It should probably be what a craftsman of equivalent skill would earn for working that amount of time. I forget the exact currency values for that world, but it definitely shouldn't be an amount you can live comfortably with for a much longer period of time than it takes to create those clothes.
My take on it is that the magically-made clothing has the same quality and feel as high brand products (i.e. expensive materials woven by a famous tailor or such) and therefore the clothes spell crashed the price of those brand name clothes.i am somewhat bothered with clothes cost gold to make. Weaving a clothes is one of the most ancient knowledge next to farming and hunting. It shouldn't be cost more than smithing (creating a tool) or sculpting (creating an ornament or building architecture)
Well, he said "dozens of gold coins", and didn't specify the quality of it. A dozen gold coins is about 24 days, so several dozen would be several months worth of living costs.Gold coins in this series is actually not as valuable as typically depicted in some other series. 1 gold coin is roughly 2 days worth of living expenses for 1 person (ch. 24 pg. 15).
Assuming their mechanical engineering technology isn’t very advanced due to magic thus everything done manually by hand (as Will said), making a clothing article beginning from thread spooling would take days by trained weavers. Considering the time and living cost, the resulting cost that Will mentioned for new clothing makes somewhat of a sense. Of course, he probably referred to the nicer articles closer to what Satsuki wears and not some sackcloth.
How about fireball?The chapter says dispel won't make the clothes disintegrate, but I bet there is a rather easy spell that will.