When a lotus stem is snapped and gently pulled apart, it releases a few gossamer threads, sticky and impossibly fine — the raw stuff of lotus silk. Each stem gives only a little, and the fiber must be worked before it dries, so no forager gathers it in haste.
Slow to win and slower to spin, lotus fiber is prized above every common thread. In the right hands it becomes a silk that water beads off of and light seems to sink into.


Lotus Fibers

Fine, rare threads drawn by hand from lotus stems.

A Lotus in still water, pale blooms rising above broad leaves.

Lotus takes root in the still, mirror-black pools that gather on the higher isles, lifting broad leaves and pale luminous blooms above the water. Snap a stem and it weeps fine threads — @items/fibers/lotus — that a patient forager can draw out by hand before they dry.
The fiber is rare and slow to win, but what it becomes is rarer still: lotus silk, a cloth so fine and so costly that a single bolt is the work of many days. It is the first true luxury the craft can offer.


Lotus

A serene water-bloom rising from still mountain pools.

. A snapped stem weeps fine threads that must be pulled out by hand before they dry, which makes every strand slow, deliberate work over the still mountain pools. What it becomes is lotus silk, the first true luxury the craft offers.


Harvest Lotus

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Learn to draw silk threads from lotus stems before they dry.

Tier	5
Level	25
Experience	70 per item

Harvest Lotus

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