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[Buel]

I have tons of the stuff, and I'm trying to make some clothes for my dwarves so they can you know. Not freak out and make artifacts out of people in butchershops. When ever I go to the clothiers shop and hit make clothes, it says their is no plant ones available. But I have plenty of animal wool cloth.

[Tardigrade]

I can't look it up from here but the first level of the clothier's workshop menu sets the type of cloth to use. It sounds like you are choosing (plant) cloth - choose yarn instead.

[Burnup]

Wool: http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Wool
Silk: http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Silk
Leather: http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Leather
Clothier's shop: http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2012:Clothier%27s_shop
Clothier Profession: http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Clothier
Loom: http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Loom
Textile Industry: http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2012:Textile_industry

Textile Industry probably explains it the best.
Let's say you have thread, or wool. Then you need to process it through a loom to make it into cloth. Once cloth, your clothier can handle it.

Also: BUG: "Sometimes you end up with single 'stray [animal] wool' items without stack number.Bug:5816 As has been observed with other materials like bone, these will not be used by dwarves and should be forwarded to a garbage disposal."

[m-logik]

I expected from that title to see a custom reaction for making cloth from the beards of shaved dwarves.

Not gonna lie, I'm a bit disappointed.

[dudlol]

Would that be very difficult for someone to make? Make dwarves sharable,  producing a beard and an unhappy thought. Beard being yarn, spin to cloth or whatever that procedure is and make dwarf clothes. Massive bonus points if wearing or seeing a friends beard gives a happy thought.

[Duuvian]

OP: Make sure you either have dyed your cloth or have 'use dyed cloth only' or what-not turned off in the orders screen.

Dyed cloth is much more valuable.  I recommend that you set up a dyer's workshop.

If you don't set a clothing stockpile the finished clothes will stay in the workshop. Then you can order 'Sew image' on repeat so the crafter only has to grab thread instead of two items, and they will be decorated with even more valuable dyed thread if your dwarves haven't grabbed them already.

It might make your dwarves a little happier, but I do it mostly so I can pay caravans in discarded worn clothing by searching for 'x' in the trade depot when traders arrive.

[greycat]

Dyed cloth is much more valuable.  I recommend that you set up a dyer's workshop.

If you don't set a clothing stockpile the finished clothes will stay in the workshop. Then you can order 'Sew image' on repeat so the crafter only has to grab thread instead of two items, and they will be decorated with even more valuable dyed thread if your dwarves haven't grabbed them already.

It might make your dwarves a little happier, but I do it mostly so I can pay caravans in discarded worn clothing by searching for 'x' in the trade depot when traders arrive.

Dyed or otherwise expensive clothing does not give your dwarves happy thoughts.  As far as happiness goes, a no-quality wool shirt is exactly as useful as a masterwork-dyed, masterwork-woven, masterwork-tailored, thrice-decorated-with-gems giant cave spider silk shirt.

If you're using these clothes for export, great!  I'm sure they'll buy you lots of lay pewter trumpets or something.  Have fun trying to prevent your dwarves from claiming them.