Taffeta Loincloth ★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Taffeta Loincloth is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Hard Hippogryph Leather ×1, Silk Thread ×1 and Hippogryph Leather ×2 — which resolve to 6 distinct raw materials totalling 17 units, plus 12 crystals.

That bill outweighs 7,161 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 916 of the 1,968 Weaver ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 2 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 10 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 6 Earth Crystal, 3 Lightning Crystal, 1 Earth Cluster and 2 other kinds.

The chain crosses two disciplines — Weaver to Lv 50 and Leatherworker to Lv 50 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

3 of the 6 raw materials come out of the ground, and one of them is time-gated: Silkworm Cocoon (1:00). That window comes round once per Eorzean day, every 70 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Silk Thread has the widest use: 175 recipes call for it, spanning six of the eight crafting classes.