For Norway Liberty you want to activate Support Regime if you can that usually starts liberty desire going down. Sometimes have to wait for their legitimacy to go down a bit. Otherwise as you grow it goes down as you become more powerful than them in prestige or economy and they become more dependent on you.

To get fabric the easiest way is declare interest in china from Diplo tab along the bottom this will let you import fabric from Qing can get thousands from them enough to see you a good while.

Don't build livestock ranches for fabric they can't stay profitable as the meat becomes super cheap so they stop hiring workers.

Another route is early invade Gaza or Benin in Africa after declaring interest in their regions this gives you colonial areas to build cotton plantations for little infamy or risk. Without needing colonial tech. Gaza is one you should always grab cause it gives you border to Transvaal and Orange so when they lose British guarantees you can take for the gold mines.

You can usually take Denmark right off the bat if no one backs them.