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[Mechanixm]

Why does Sew Image require a bolt of cloth (or piece of leather) and not a spool of thread?

[NecroRebel]

Because that's what it requires.

Presumably rather than making an image with embroidery or something like that, the dwarf is taking a piece of material, cutting it into the shape of the image, and then attaching it to the item.

[FoiledFencer]

It's like NecroRebel says.

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Basically you can picture it as not this:


But this.

[This image relates to the ascension of William The Conqueror as King of the Blue Birds, a human civilization.]

[Girlinhat]

I assumed that they made an image on the cloth/leather, and then applied it to the item like an iron-on badge.

[khearn]

It's like NecroRebel says.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Basically you can picture it as not this:


But this.

[This image relates to the ascension of William The Conqueror as King of the Blue Birds, a human civilization.]

Actually, the Bayeux Tapestry is embroidery as well. The solid areas are couched (a large thread laid across the fabric, held in place by stitches of a finer thread). See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayeux_Tapestry#Construction_and_technique