Cloth Tailoring is not a difficult skill to level up, at least not in the first 30 points or so and is vital to making sails, which is more or less pointless before 25 and not easy even then.
#acquire [[Cotton]]
#take those to a [[Floor loom]]
#starting with the lowest QL strings and working to the highest, activate String of Cloth, right click Floor Loom, Create->[[square piece of cloth]] (continue until that 75% is used up)