Dressmaker Wiki — Fabrics, Patterns & Guides

Start with the garment loop itself: sketch a design, arrange the pattern pieces, cut along the highlighted line, sew the panels on the machine, check the fit on the mannequin, then decorate. Once that cycle feels natural, layer in commissions, reputation and coin — the shop window and harder fabrics only matter after the basics feel automatic.

Cotton is the forgiving everyday starter, linen suits light daytime looks, wool gives structure for colder-weather outfits, and silk and velvet are the go-to pair for formal evening commissions. Our fabrics page ranks all five editorially and explains how grain versus bias cutting changes how each one falls on the finished dress.

Each townsfolk customer states an occasion and a taste — read both before buying fabric. Successful deliveries raise your reputation across the town and pay out coin, which funds better fabrics for future orders. Letters and gifts are community-debated ways to win customers over, and you can also deliberately sabotage an order if you want to see what happens.

Steam lists 32 achievements for Dressmaker. They cover craft milestones such as your first cut and first completed garment, commission goals tied to deliveries and reputation, and several social or hidden unlocks — community threads specifically keep asking about a cat-related secret. Our achievements roadmap suggests an order that keeps story unlocks from becoming missable.

You can display ready-made designs in the shop window and sell off the rack alongside custom commissions — community reports suggest off-the-rack sales may interact with pending orders, so mind the conflict. There is no redeem-code system in Dressmaker: the store page, press kit and community channels have no codes, so any site promising Dressmaker codes is not describing a real feature.