Tailoring allows players to cut and weave various pieces of cloth into armor, bags, shirts, and other cloth items. Tailors can create cloth items for cloth wearing classes: Mages, Warlocks, and Priests. Tailors play an especially important role in guilds because they can create bags for the entire guild. They can also create specialty bags such as Herbalism bags that can increase gathering for the guild. They can learn powerful rare recipes as the highest levels which allow them to create powerful gear useful in raiding. Tailors can create shirts or dress-up items.
Tailors do not require any special equipment to create their items, such as blacksmiths require anvils. Tailors can create items wherever they want, as long as they have the proper required ingredients. Tailoring does not require a gathering profession. Proper ingredients must be gathered from monsters or purchased from other players. If your friends know you're a tailor they also may collect tailoring ingredients for you, provided you let them know exactly what you need.

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Recipe Ingredients

Tailored items require cloth, typically dropped by humanoid monsters. You can ask around to find out what specific monsters drop them or check profession guides.
Cloth Types:

Cloth Level Monsters Skill Recipes

Linen 5-17 1-91
Wool 16-27 75-130
Silk 25-40 125-210
Mageweave 40-50 175-250
Runecloth 50+ 250-300
Felcloth 53-60* 250-300
Mooncloth** - 290-300

*Demons and Satyrs (Felwood, Azshara, Blasted Lands, Dire Maul)
**Mooncloth is created by combining two Felcloth in a Moon Well. This can only be done every 4 days.

Other Ingredients
Recipes usually require thread or possibly colored dye which is purchased from trade merchants. You can usually find the trade merchants that have all available ingredients near the trainers. You might also need leather, gems, potions, and other special ingredients created by other Profession craftsmen. Leather is found by Skinners so you will likely have to purchase it from another player or from a friend. Gems are found from monster drops, treasure chests, Mining, Fishing, and Rogue pick pocketing. Potions will need to be purchased or given by an Alchemist.

Recipes
Recipes can be found at trainers, as limited items on special vendors, as rewards for reputations, monster drops, quest rewards, powerful boss drops, and in the auction house. Ask around if you can't find a particular recipe.

Moon Well Locations
Alliance players can find Moon Wells at the Temple of the Moon in Darnassus, Auberdine in Darkshore, the Park in Stormwind, or in Cenarion Hold in Silithus. Horde players have a little more challenging time finding Moon Wells. They can find Moon Wells in Cenarion Hold, in Ashenvale east of Iris Lake, or in Thalanaar in Thousand Needles.

Bags

Tailors are the main creators of bags. Players can acquire bags from loot drops, quests, or merchants. However, tailors can provide bags in larger quantities, while also offering cheaper prices than trade merchants. Every class needs and wants bags, so this provides excellent opportunities for tailors and also makes them extremely popular until players have all of their bags. As tailors increase their level, they can more easily find or purchase ingredients for bag making.

Bags Slots Skill Required

Linen Bag 6 45
Red Linen Bag 6 70
Woolen Bag 8 80
Green Woolen Bag 8 95
Red Woolen Bag 8 115
Small Silk Pack 10 150
Green Silk Bag 10 175
Black Silk Bag 10 185
Mageweave Bag 12 225
Red Mageweave Bag 12 235
Runecloth Bag 14 260
Mooncloth Bag 16 300
Bottomless Bag 18 300


Specialty Bags Slots Usage Skill Required

Enchanted Mageweave Pouch 16 Enchanting 225
Enchanted Runecloth Bag 20 Enchanting 275
Big Bag of Enchantment 24 Enchanting 300
Soul Pouch 20 Warlock 260
Core Felcloth Bag 28 Warlock 300
Cenarion Herb Bag 20 Herbalism 275
Satchel of Cenarius 24 Herbalism 300

Special Clothes

Tailors can also create special outfits such as dresses or formal attire. These can impress other people in town or be used for special occasions. Examples: Wedding Dress, Tux Shirt, Tux Pants, and Tux Jacket. Some players wish to purchase these which can result in steady sales in the auction house or directly to players.

Shirts

Tailors can create a wide array of different shirts. In addition to being available in different colors, shirts also come in many varying styles. Shirts can sometimes show prominently on a character, depending on what equipment they are wearing. A shirt has the potential to make a character look much better! Tailors can sell shirts to players looking to improve their appearance. Although some shirts are more expensive and harder to make, early easy shirts can still sell well. If you're trying to make a look, try all of the shirts available. Collect them all! The most popular selling shirts are Dark Silk and Rich Purple Silk.
Shirts: White Linen, Blue Linen, Red Linen, Green Linen, Gray Woolen, Stylish Red Shirt, Stylish Blue Shirt, Stylish Green Shirt, Bright Yellow Shirt, Dark Silk, White Swashbuckler's, Formal White, Red Swashbuckler's, Rich Purple Silk, Green Holiday, Black Swashbuckler's, Orange Mageweave, Orange Martial, Pink Mageweave, Lavender Mageweave, Tuxedo.

Other Information

You can reduce the cost of thread and other ingredients purchased at tailoring shops by increasing your PvP rank to earn the Sergeants discount.
To learn Expert Tailoring Horde players should look for Josef Gregorian (Magic Quarter, Undercity). Alliance players should find Georgio Bolero (Mage Quarter, Stormwind).
Artisan Tailoring is available at the highest level once you have reached level 35. Horde players look for Daryl Stack (Tarren Mill, Hillsbrad Foothills). Alliance players go to Timothy Worthington (Theramore Isle, Dustwallow Marsh).
Skinning might go well with tailoring, because you can collect leather for recipes.
Additional Tailoring recipes can be found in encoded messages found on the members of the Twilight's Hammer in Silithus.
There are some tailoring quests such as Shadowweave Mask (NIlith Lokrav in the Searing Gorge) or Meilosh in the Timbermaw Hold, when you have a friendly reputation with the Timbermaw.