Color embroidery
For a long time, people wondered if one could use the Colors to improve the capabilities of one's body.
When Sponge iron and its abilities were discovered, people started experimenting with creating and embroidering metal threads into clothes.
First results were bad. Apparently, if one didn't know the patterns each Color needs to function properly, instead of strengthening someone, they would start to affect their body, often warping or mutilating it. After many tries and years, the exact patterns were discovered, both for the positive and negative sides of every Color. Soon, both the military and industry started to progress at an alarming speed. Soldiers didn't need to wear armor anymore and could withstand more hits without dying and resist magic, while those with access to embroidered clothing could carry enormous weights and enhance their abilities.
It can enhance someone's eyes or let them perceive the lies or, in its negative state, it can help someone hide and avoid the eyes of others.
To access its positive side, the threads need to be embroidered into a shape of braids, going downwards, while its negative side needs a shape of open eyes touching each other side by side.
It enhances voice, its volume, and its melodiousness. It can also create vibrations. In a negative state, it dampens every sound, leaving only silence.
Positive side requires a pattern shaped like a letter "V" with curly ends pointed downwards (like the symbol of Aries), while the negative side needs irregular dots that break apart the soundwaves like rocks do to the sea.
It can help one keep balance in every situation, prevent others from picking them up and even let them walk on liquids or very soft substances. In a negative state, it denies magic and some of the wounds, and also protects from the water.
Patterns that are associated with it are parallel lines for the positive side and a row or column of "X" for the negative one.
The white patterns don't work by themselves. Instead, they change the properties of other patterns on the clothing. The positive side (order) balances all of the other properties of the magical item, while negative one (chaos) can randomly empower or weaken them, sometimes creating clothing that gives one legendary powers.
The patterns of order consist of diamonds (same as the card suit). The patterns of chaos are randomly shaped stars.
When Sponge iron and its abilities were discovered, people started experimenting with creating and embroidering metal threads into clothes.
First results were bad. Apparently, if one didn't know the patterns each Color needs to function properly, instead of strengthening someone, they would start to affect their body, often warping or mutilating it. After many tries and years, the exact patterns were discovered, both for the positive and negative sides of every Color. Soon, both the military and industry started to progress at an alarming speed. Soldiers didn't need to wear armor anymore and could withstand more hits without dying and resist magic, while those with access to embroidered clothing could carry enormous weights and enhance their abilities.
Patterns
Blue
Color of sight and truth. Color of blindness and illusions.It can enhance someone's eyes or let them perceive the lies or, in its negative state, it can help someone hide and avoid the eyes of others.
To access its positive side, the threads need to be embroidered into a shape of braids, going downwards, while its negative side needs a shape of open eyes touching each other side by side.
Green
The Color of sound. The Color of silence.It enhances voice, its volume, and its melodiousness. It can also create vibrations. In a negative state, it dampens every sound, leaving only silence.
Positive side requires a pattern shaped like a letter "V" with curly ends pointed downwards (like the symbol of Aries), while the negative side needs irregular dots that break apart the soundwaves like rocks do to the sea.
Yellow
The Color that stabilizes. The Color that denies.It can help one keep balance in every situation, prevent others from picking them up and even let them walk on liquids or very soft substances. In a negative state, it denies magic and some of the wounds, and also protects from the water.
Patterns that are associated with it are parallel lines for the positive side and a row or column of "X" for the negative one.
White
The Color of order. The Color of chaos.The white patterns don't work by themselves. Instead, they change the properties of other patterns on the clothing. The positive side (order) balances all of the other properties of the magical item, while negative one (chaos) can randomly empower or weaken them, sometimes creating clothing that gives one legendary powers.
The patterns of order consist of diamonds (same as the card suit). The patterns of chaos are randomly shaped stars.
Related Materials
From armor to uniforms
The discovery of patterns meant the death of the armor for most of the cultures.Even those whose entire profits relied on selling the metal for armor had to adapt as quickly as possible.
There was just no reason (other than the lack of sponge iron in the area) to wear something that would be way more cumbersome and heavy than the clothes embroidered with Colorful threads.
Red
The Color of safety. The Color of danger.It can protect one from wounds, lessen the wounds, and stop the bleeding. It also can fill one's mind with determination, and let them ignore the pain.
Its shape is that of scales pointed downwards, connecting with each other. The second shape is that of spikes or spears pointed to the sky.
Black
The Color of strength. The Color of weakness.It can enhance someone's strengths (such as strength, speed, mental strength, etc.) or it can be used to weaken outside forces, such as gravity on oneself.
In a positive state, one needs to embroider a filled circle with lines coming towards it. In a negative state, one needs to create an empty circle.
Good touch explaining that armorers were SOL after this discovery, I'd be curious to know more in-depth about that— if they became adept at weaving themselves or simply fell out of practice afterwards. I imagine this could have upset the job market, as well.