Textiles on Roshar

[Dlyol]

I was wondering is it ever explained what humans use to makes textiles on Roshar? Prior to synthetic fibres we on earth used both fibres from plants and some from animals like wool but I don't remember mention of sheep on Roshar so I presume most all textiles on Roshar must be plant based such as we use hemp but I can't remember it being mentioned in the books?

[Karger he/him]

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Questioner

Where does the fiber for fabric come from on Scadrial?

Brandon Sanderson

[Brandon misunderstands the question to be about Rosharan fabrics] Some of it comes from seasilk. The silk is not the same silk that we [have], most of it is from plant-based textiles. Most of the-- here we have insects, we can use their cocoons and stuff; cocoons on Roshar have rock in them. And so it's a little bit hard. But a lot of the plants do too, and there are a lot of plant-based textiles you can use, so...

Argent

Didn't you ask about Scadrial?

Brandon Sanderson

Oh, Scadrial! I was thinking about Roshar. Yeah, Scadrial is an Earth analogue. Scadrial is my place that if it's on Earth, you can assume it's on Scadrial. That is not the case for the other worlds, but it is for Scadrial.

Words of Radiance Chicago signing (March 22, 2014)

 

[Doomdrinker she/her]

Their are also some earth animals on roshar, mink coats are mentioned as are sheep. And not to mention the fact that we farm many silk spinning insects here on earth and given how big animals get on roshar they probably have high quantitys of it.

[Dunkum he/him]

1 hour ago, Doomdrinker said:

Their are also some earth animals on roshar, mink coats are mentioned as are sheep. And not to mention the fact that we farm many silk spinning insects here on earth and given how big animals get on roshar they probably have high quantitys of it.

well, the WoB suggests that insect silk might not be particularly usable because it would be infused with rock.  those other things will exist, but since you pretty much can't raise most mammals outside of Shinovar, even wool would probably be a pretty expensive luxury