Colorable cloth.

[Hasta]

New skill - "Color cloth".
Requires a Boiling cauldron to use.
Takes 1 of any Cloth + 1kg of a Pigment of single color, consumes 2 litres of water.
Adds "colored" to the cloth (icon stays the same, tooltip shows added coloring - same as with items that use a Sketch as an ingredient).

When used to craft/build an item with variable materials, instead of adding the natural color of used Cloth, added pigment color is applied to variable parts.

And maybe, if that's not too much to draw, even if used to craft equipment that currently has no variable materials (shirts, pants etc) the results may be colored/tinted as well.

This won't interfere with sketches (and, by extension, the phat money sketchbooks make for our devs), but, rather, will be a nice additional resource sink and a source of endless fun. Bright red pants! Camouflage-green robes! See? fun.

Come on, there is, like, 10 colors in this game. Let us get creative with them all the way.

[FrankMcFuzz]

There's a lot to say about this suggestion.

But my biggest issue is 1kg of colour per cloth. Most colours only make about 0.25 on craft, and a few require a bone glue for that 0.25, so you're essentially asking for 40 bones per coloured cloth, which is actually and literally insane.

I forget; Do colours have a quality? If so, will this increase the coloured cloth quality? Can I power level my cloth q with good quality colours? Is this fair? :O

[Hasta]

No, in my mind cloth coloring wouldn't change the resulting item quality in any way, even with cauldron's quality. The change would be purely cosmetic. And for the most uses pigment quality doesn't matter in the resulting item (as in, sketches).

As for the process cost - i'm not "apoditically attached" to it or what's the word jorb uses. On the other hand, if you're short on bone glue - just use another color, huh?

Edit:
On the other other hand, some decent points have been raised, so I feel I should rephrase my suggestion to the following:

Please consider adding a way to use pigments for coloring/tinting the natural color of any Cloth to be used in variable (or even non-variable) building/crafting recipes.