02-02-2023, 01:20 PM | #11 |
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Re: [Low-Tech]Question about silk horse armor
Nah, it's about 30x instead. Cotton T-shirts sourced from the same kind of Chinese mass production run about $2.50.
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02-02-2023, 01:22 PM | #12 |
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02-02-2023, 02:13 PM | #13 |
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Re: [Low-Tech]Question about silk horse armor
So looking at modern prices on modern exchanges for cotton and for silkworm cocoons, there is about a x4 price difference in weight, at least from a quick search.
I hope that gives at least some sort of sanity check on prices. Maybe?
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02-02-2023, 02:36 PM | #14 |
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Re: [Low-Tech]Question about silk horse armor
Probably better to get price per yard, though that seems a similar scale anyway.
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02-02-2023, 03:16 PM | #15 |
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Re: [Low-Tech]Question about silk horse armor
Note that modern pricing of cotton is just as 'off' for historical comparisons as that of modern silk is. A quick look at some fabric stores suggests anything from 1:1 cotton:silk to 1:3 in pricing, and linen costing as much or more than silk, which was really, really not the case in Europe historically.
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02-02-2023, 03:50 PM | #16 |
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Re: [Low-Tech]Question about silk horse armor
Low-Tech isn't supposed to be Euro-centric. Silk is only +19CF if the product is sourced locally. If it is imported then you add other modifiers on top. Pricing in LT was determined by both historical pricing and utility. If the price was based purely on historical prices then mail would cost a lot more than plate.
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02-02-2023, 08:31 PM | #17 |
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Re: [Low-Tech]Question about silk horse armor
Cheaper items have a greater markup than more expensive items. A retailer would rather sell one $1000 item than ten $100 items. In the latter, the retailer needs ten times more labour and to carry ten times as much stock to generate the same revenue. So, with expensive items, the overheads are comparatively lower so he can have a lower profit margin.
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02-03-2023, 04:29 AM | #19 |
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Re: [Low-Tech]Question about silk horse armor
Every price in Low-Tech is subjective. There is no such thing as a fixed historical price.
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