Tailoring is a World of Warcraft crafting profession that turns cloth into cloth armor, bags, shirts, and specialty items. It's the standout choice for cloth-wearing casters — mages, priests, and warlocks — and it's best known for making some of the largest bags in the game. Tailoring needs no gathering partner: your raw cloth drops from humanoid enemies as you quest and grind.

Tailoring quick facts

  • Type: Production (crafting) profession — one of the two you can carry at once.
  • Materials: Cloth looted from humanoid mobs (Linen, Wool, Silk, and higher tiers as you level up), plus threads, dyes, and expansion-specific reagents.
  • Best for: Cloth-armor classes — mage, priest, warlock — plus anyone who wants big bags.
  • Signature crafts: Bags (often the biggest available), cloth armor sets, shirts, and specialty cloths.
  • Gathering needed: None. Cloth is a drop, not a node you mine or herb.
  • Where to learn: Tailoring trainers in most major cities; ask a city guard for directions to the nearest one.

How to start Tailoring

  1. Visit a Tailoring trainer in a capital city and learn the profession.
  2. Loot cloth from humanoid enemies as you play — it stacks up fast while questing.
  3. Open your profession window, craft the lowest-level items you can (like bolts of cloth and simple bags) to raise skill.
  4. Return to a trainer to unlock the next skill tier as your rank climbs.
  5. Follow the recipe list upward, crafting the cheapest orange or yellow items to keep skilling efficiently.

Is Tailoring worth it?

For caster classes, yes — it lets you craft your own cloth gear and rare bags, and many expansions add cloak enchants or self-buffs exclusive to tailors. The trade-off: it doesn't gather its own materials, so you're relying on mob drops or the auction house for cloth. If you play a plate or leather class, the direct armor benefit is smaller.

What profession pairs best with Tailoring?

Enchanting is the classic partner. You can disenchant cloth gear you craft into enchanting materials, so nothing goes to waste, and enchanting adds no gathering demand of its own. Since Tailoring already skips gathering, pairing it with another crafting profession keeps both fed from drops and the auction house rather than node farming.

What does Tailoring make?

Bags are the headline — Tailoring reliably produces some of the roomiest bags in the game, useful for every character. Beyond that it crafts cloth armor for casters, cosmetic shirts, and expansion-specific specialty items like enchanted cloaks or crafted gear sets. Exact recipes shift with each expansion, so check your current trainer's list.

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