Rather than buying webs, you can:
- Save up some leve points.
- Gather or buy several stacks of cotton boll.
- Gather or buy a stack or two of animal hide/hard leather. (6 boll : 1 leather)
- Goto Quarrymill and do the Cotton Coif Of Gathering triple turn in leve until:
a) You're blue in the face. b) You're past the point of needing diremite webs to level. and/or c) You've gained several stacks of diremite webs from the leve rewards.
By doing this, you can bypass the need to feed the farmers, gain some gill yourself and get past the diremite bottleneck all at the same time. :p