Clothing quality cap?

[rudy]

I honestly don't know if this is a bug or working as intended. Any clothing item I create whether from a mod or without a mod cannot be created above decent quality. I've tested this dozens of times using various skills. If an otherwise identical recipe is used for any non clothing item, I can get higher quality items easily.

Other players I have consulted about this agree this seems to be a limitation, but I can find no mention of it in news.txt. the one exception is a forum user, Tinker, who has apparently been able to get fine quality fur clothing. They use the Linux version, but I can't imagine that would make a difference.

I mainly hoping to just find out whether this is working as intended or not.

[Sami]

Your observations are right, clothes always come out as decent quality. No higher, and no lower also.
This is because there's no proper clothmaking skill (yet) and the production times are (still) all too quick.
When we get to featuring pausable crafting ie. in clothmaking, so that we can adjust the production times to match the reality, we can also start putting cloth production quality in use.

So there's this hardcoded cap, and it's working as intended.