Spider Silk

Spider Silk

Quest

Size: SMALL WT: 0.1
Class: ALL
Race: ALL

Spider silk (and the refined Silk Swatch) are valued by journeyman tailors looking to increase their skill. It's especially efficient to farm these in Field of Bone, East Karana and anywhere else large numbers of spiders (not spiderlings) can be found.

Not to be confused with Spiderling Silk harvested from the weaker a spiderling.
Merchant resale value: 1g 9s

Drops From

Butcherblock Mountains

• a large spider

Mistmoore Castle

• a Mistmoore guard

Commonlands

• a giant spider

Dreadlands

• a drachnid recluse
• a drachnid silkmistress
• a drachnid silkstrander
• a drachnid webmaster
• a drachnid widow
• a dread widow

Eastern Plains of Karana

• a carrion spider
• a crag spider

Erud's Crossing

• a kerra spider

Everfrost Peaks

• a giant wooly spider
• a gigantic wooly spider

Field of Bone

• a bonebinder
• bonecrawler

Firiona Vie

• a drachnid silklurker
• a drachnid silkspinner
• a drachnid weblurker
• a drachnid webspinner
• a drachnid webstrander

Frontier Mountains

• Briarweb Spider

Kaesora

• Briarweb Spider
• Bristleweb Spider
• Frenzied Strathbone
• strathbone healer
• Strathbone Runelord
• strathbone spider

Kithicor Forest

• a cliff spider

Lesser Faydark

• a giant spider

Lower Guk

• a deadly black widow

Nagafen's Lair

• lava duct crawler

Najena

• A Giant Black Widow

Nektulos Forest

• a giant widow
• a large arachneidae

Northern Desert of Ro

• a desert tarantula
• a dune tarantula

Permafrost

• giant wooly spider

Southern Desert of Ro

• a desert tarantula
• a dune tarantula

Upper Guk

• a heart spider
• a large heart spider

Western Karana

• a giant spider

Sold by

• This item cannot be purchased from merchants.

Related quests

• This item has no related quests.

Player crafted

• This item is not crafted by players.

Tradeskill recipes

This item is used in player tradeskills:

• Tailoring
  • Silk Swatch (Trivial: 15)

Foraged

This item can be foraged:

• Mistmoore Castle
• Erud's Crossing
• Everfrost Peaks
• Field of Bone
• Nektulos Forest
• Southern Desert of Ro
• Steamfont Mountains

Hunting Notes

9/24/2026: The best place to hunt these is East Karana, near the entrance pathway to Highhold. They mostly show up along the plains and up the mountain to the south. Crag Spiders can drop up to 6 silks at a time. Respawn is fairly fast. (Kills: 41 crag/11 carrion Looted: 114)