Crafting estimate at current listings

At current lowest listed prices the reagents cost more than the crafted item lists for: an estimated loss of 7 gold28 silver per craft.

Reagent cost (lowest listed): 20 gold
Crafted item, lowest listed price: 13 gold38 silver
Auction House cut (5%): 66 silver90 copper
Estimated profit at that listed price: −7 gold28 silver (-36%)

Evidence: 11 current listings holding 63 units of the crafted item in the US region. We see listings, not sales, so how many sell and at what price is unknown.
Quality: Preserving Embroidery Thread comes in 3 quality ranks. This is the base comparison, rank 1 reagents against the rank 1 result; your skill and the reagents’ ranks decide the rank you actually get, which this estimate does not model. Each rank’s lowest listing is in the rank table below.
Not included: the recipe also accepts 2 finishing reagent slots, which are not required and are left out of the cost.

Verified priceAuction House1 hr agoUS region

Recipe facts

Profession: Tailoring
Requires skill: 1
Expansion tier: Khaz Algar Tailoring
Item level: 71
Reagent slots: 2
Cast time: 2 sec

Crafts

Preserving Embroidery Thread13 gold

Reagents

1Weavercloth Bolt7 gold
1Writhing Sample13 gold

Cost per reagent

Reagent	Qty	Each	Cost	Share
Weavercloth Bolt Cloth · 16,296 on the Auction House	1	7 gold	7 gold	35%
Writhing Sample Other · 16,254 on the Auction House	1	13 gold	13 gold	65%
Total per craft			20 gold	100%

About Preserving Embroidery Thread

One craft takes 1 Weavercloth Bolt and 1 Writhing Sample. Preserving Embroidery Thread is itself a reagent in 60 other recipes (Tailoring).

Recipe category: Finishing Reagents (Khaz Algar Patterns)
Skill-up colours (Khaz Algar Tailoring skill): Orange below 60 · Yellow 60 to 61 · Green 62 to 64 · Grey 65 and up
Skill points per craft: 1

Preserving Embroidery Thread tooltip

Preserving Embroidery Thread

Item Level 71

Trade Goods

“Can be bought and sold on the Auction House.”

Sell price: 1g 1s

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Preserving Embroidery Thread quality ranks

Preserving Embroidery Thread comes in 3 quality ranks, and each rank is its own item on the Auction House. The recipe’s base crafting difficulty is 390.

Rank	Item	Lowest listed price	Listings (US)
Rank 1	Preserving Embroidery Thread	13 gold38 silver	11 listings, 63 units
Rank 2	Preserving Embroidery Thread	39 gold92 silver	22 listings, 1,373 units
Rank 3	Preserving Embroidery Thread	36 gold68 silver	16 listings, 1,689 units

The crafting estimate above is the base comparison: rank 1 reagents against the rank 1 result. Your skill and the reagents’ ranks decide which rank a craft actually makes, so a higher rank is never priced against rank 1 reagents here.

Preserving Embroidery Thread: lowest listed price, last 30 days

The current lowest listing is 34% above its 30-day median. Over these 30 days the lowest listing moved more than tenfold, so a single snapshot, including the one the estimate uses, can sit far from typical.

Now: 13 gold38 silver
30-day low: 3 gold58 silver Sep 7
30-day high: 22,222 gold22 silver Sep 19
30-day median: 10 gold
7-day median: 4 gold
Hourly snapshots: 687

US region, the cheapest listing at each hourly Auction House snapshot. These are asking prices, not sales.

Where the reagents come from

Weavercloth Bolt. Made with Weavercloth Bolt (Tailoring, Khaz Algar Tailoring) from 10 Spool of Weaverthread and 6 Mosswool Thread. At lowest listed prices that makes one Weavercloth Bolt for 21 gold34 silver, against 7 gold listed. Lowest listed price by quality rank: rank 1 7 gold, rank 2 13 gold and rank 3 13 gold82 silver. Also a required reagent in 15 other recipes (15 Tailoring); the most per craft: Undermine Bean Bag Chair (Tailoring, 6 per craft), Pioneer's Cloth Robe (Tailoring, 3 per craft), Pioneer's Perfected Hood (Tailoring, 3 per craft), Pioneer's Perfected Leggings (Tailoring, 3 per craft) and Exquisite Weavercloth Bolt (Tailoring, 2 per craft).

Writhing Sample. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 24 other recipes (9 Inscription, 6 Enchanting, 5 Alchemy and 1 Leatherworking); the most per craft: Vagabond's Bounding Baton (Inscription, 20 per craft), Vagabond's Careful Crutch (Inscription, 20 per craft), Vagabond's Torch (Inscription, 20 per craft), Cursed Critical Strike (Enchanting, 10 per craft) and Cursed Haste (Enchanting, 10 per craft).

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Reading these numbers

At current lowest listed prices the 2 reagents for one craft of Preserving Embroidery Thread cost 20 gold. Most of that is Writhing Sample - 1 at 13 gold each, 13 gold, 65.0% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.

Break-even is 21 gold5 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 13 gold38 silver, which does not clear it.

The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: −6 gold62 silver before fees, and the Auction House would still take 66 silver90 copper of a sale, so a craft loses 7 gold28 silver at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -36.4% return on the gold you put into reagents.

Listing depth right now: 63 units across 11 auctions region-wide. Depth separates a market price from a single asking figure, but listings are not sales, so read it alongside the estimate.

Costs use each reagent’s lowest listed price; the estimate is the crafted item’s lowest listed price, times the items one craft makes, minus those reagents and Blizzard’s 5% sale cut. Listings are asking prices, not sales. Recalculated every snapshot and left blank rather than guessed when a price is missing. How we estimate crafting profit →

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