How to keep Tailoring

Researching, like feeding your prisoners, requires that you assign colonists to research. This is done in the overview screen:

Once you have one or more colonists assigned to research, you will need to build a research bench for them to research at:

Finally, you need to select a project to research, this is done in the Research screen, which is available in the bottom right corner of the screen next to Overview.

Select the Unresearched tab, and then start your research process by clicking on the Research button for the project you wish to research:

Remember that research is the lowest priority task - if you can't get your colonist to research, try changing the priority they assign to their tasks, or, deselect all other tasks for your researcher. This is demonstrated in my first screenshot.

Once you've got 'Researching' selected against one of your colonists, you can also click that colonist and then make them interact with the research bench.

You're off to a good start next I'd get some defenses up, turrets and sandbags to be more specific. This will help with raider waves.

Which brings us to our next part: getting more people.

You can get people in 5 ways right now.

1. People will wander in and just join up no questions asked
2. An escape pod will crash and you will have to rescue the person and convince them to join
3. When fighting raiders, randomly the killing hit won't kill them only knock them unconscious. When this happens you have the ability to capture them
4. The same can be done for visitors
5. The same can be done for the people in cryo-sleep pods. A warning about this one though those pods are guarded by some hard to kill and hard hitting enemies open at your own risk

When you capture anyone you need to have prisoners beds set up for them to sleep in. I usually set these up away from my main colony just in case one breaks out. You then need to have a warden "try to recruit them" your chances are better if the person is not injured and well fed.

As from where to go from there you could outfit people with bionic parts, set up different productions to earn lots of sliver or build a rocket and escape the planet.