Clothing in Blueland is made from three main materials: animal pelts, grass cloth, and yarn. The people of Blueland import as little as possible apart from food, so they try to live exclusively off of local resources otherwise, reflected in their fashion.
Animal Pelts
These fall into leather and furs. The former is sourced from the Blueland wild goat; the latter usually from hares, or alternatively edible mustelidae.
Very few animals on Blueland can be eaten by humans due to the high level of the rocksea mineral in the soil. The people of Blueland don’t like to kill animals only for their pelts, but dog breeds native to the island which have been domesticated over time can eat the meat of both hares and wild goats, and are commonplace as working animals. As such, when one of these animals is hunted, neither meat nor pelt goes to waste. Mustelidae (weasels, badgers and mink) are much less common as furs due to the hunting restrictions to protect the sustainability of them as a food source.
Grass Cloth
A linen-type fabric made from spinning the local grasses, grass cloth is notable for naturally having a blue tint caused by rocksea deposits. It is often dyed with other plants to make variants of blue, green and purple, but dying it any colour that isn’t blue-based is very difficult. Since bleaching the fabric is very costly, most clothes made with grass cloth are in those colours.
Yarn
Since non-indigenous animals cannot be kept by Bluelanders for wool, their yarn is made from the Blueland woolly wildcat. It is populous within the island and its wool is easily caught on bracken and sticks, able to be collected for spinning into yarn. Usually yarn is used only to make blankets, furnishings and baby clothes, with furs and leather being the main materials for warm clothing.
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