Here's a tailoring guide from eq-online, captured in October 1999 that seems to have tailoring as it existed before the silk additions.
It went patchwork, studded, reinforced.
https://web.archive.org/web/19991009...ring_guide.htm
And more detail of tradeskills in general, including tailoring but also others:
https://web.archive.org/web/19991012...ade_skills.htm