What does it cost to level Tailoring right now?

1.1kg in reagents at today's TW auction prices, over about 135 crafts. Sell the results and it comes back to 1.1kg.

Where do these numbers come from?

The skill thresholds are read from the game client data for build 12.1.0.68914. The prices are the region-wide auction house, refreshed every few minutes; these are the snapshot taken at 17:54 UTC.

Why does the route change when I reload?

Because the prices did. The cheapest recipe for a stretch of skill is whichever one's reagents are cheapest at that moment, and that moves through the day.

Profession leveling · Pandaria Tailoring · TW · prices as of 17:54 UTC

Tailoring leveling 1 → 75 · Pandaria Tailoring

1.1kg in reagents over about 135 crafts. Sell what you make and it comes back to 1.1kg.

Start skill

Trainer recipes only

Recipe names carry the colour the profession window gives them: orange is a point every craft, yellow is three in four, green is one in four.

Before the first craft — buy it all at once

One trip to the auction house. Vendor lines are cheaper from the profession vendor than from the board.

ReagentNeedEachTotal

Bolt of Windwool Cloth×3030

Total1,109

Step 1 · Skill 1 → 27

Orange→Yellow

Windwool Bandage

trainer

About 27 crafts.25

per skill point97

Windwool Cloth×27

Step 2 · Skill 27 → 65

Orange→Green

Heavy Windwool Bandage

trainer

About 98 crafts.184

per skill point4

Windwool Cloth×196

Step 3 · Skill 65 → 75

Orange

Contender's Silk Cuffs

needs the recipe item

About 10 crafts.900

per skill point90

Bolt of Windwool Cloth×30

Skill 75 — done. Now sell what you made.

Crafted itemUnitsEachTotal

Heavy Windwool Bandage9812

9812

Windwool Bandage2712

273

Contender's Silk Cuffs1015

101

Capped at what the market takes in 3 days, so a route never pretends to sell hundreds at once.

Back in your pocket1,092

What's worth crafting with Tailoring right now

Questions

How this route is built

What does it cost to level Tailoring right now?: 1.1kg in reagents at today's TW auction prices, over about 135 crafts. Sell the results and it comes back to 1.1kg.
Where do these numbers come from?: The skill thresholds are read from the game client data for build 12.1.0.68914. The prices are the region-wide auction house, refreshed every few minutes; these are the snapshot taken at 17:54 UTC.
Why does the route change when I reload?: Because the prices did. The cheapest recipe for a stretch of skill is whichever one's reagents are cheapest at that moment, and that moves through the day.

A first craft pays Knowledge, not skill, so it is shown as a badge and left out of the craft count. Vendor reagents are priced at the lower of the vendor and the auction house.