What are these curtains I keep reading about?

[GlassDeviant]

Are they only on non-PC versions?

[Psyringe]

They are a late-game item that can be crafted on the church workbench. I think you need to get a certain quest from the Woodcutter (he asks for the curtains and for rooftiles) to unlock them.

Apparently they can also be sold for profit, but you won't make much money with that. They require silk, and the only way to get silk is to buy a maximum of 8 pieces per week from the merchant. So even if the profit margin for curtains may be high, you'll produce them in such low numbers that the total revenue is negligible compared to your other options.

Apart from the Woodcutter's quest and selling them, they have no other use.

Edit: I've tried to determine for how much curtains would actually sell, but I can't seem to find an NPC that would buy them. The merchant won't.

[GlassDeviant]

And there's nothing to indicate this quest exists except going out of your way to talk to the Woodcutter long after he has no more significance to anything else in the game?

[Psyringe]

If I recall correctly, the Woodcutter visited me at home to give me that quest. Not sure if that happens always, or just under certain conditions. The quest reward is a Golden Apple, which you need at some point in the game, but there are two alternative sources to get one. Perhaps he doesn't visit if you're already past the step where you required a Golden Apple, but that's really just speculation.

Look at it this way: This quest is purely optional, it's a shortcut to get an item that would otherwise require either reaching dungeon level 15, or paying 10 gold to a vendor. It rewards people who like to do tasks for seemingly unimportant NPCs by giving them a cheap and easy way to get a Golden Apple (provided they have a Furnace III to create the other required items). As such, it doesn't need to be very obvious - it rewards people who look _beyond_ the obvious.The people who only follow the _obvious_ clues, will still get their apple - probably from the dungeon -, but they will have to work much harder for it.

[GlassDeviant]

I've started a first new game since the DLC dropped, maybe I'll get that this time. When it arrived, I was already finished the dungeon, so I played that save out until I encountered problems and switched to a "finished" game saved just before opening the portal on Witch Hill, which I finished the DLC with.

If it's as you describe, I would have gotten it by now if I hadn't played only old saves since the DLC, so this time I should get it.