Oh I can tell you how he finds his patterns. He most likely spends an hour or 2 a day traveling to remote locations checking merchants. Go to any little hole in the wall where there may be a general goods, tailoring supplies, or engineering vendor, (i.e Ratchet, or small camps with no flight path that only have one or 2 vendors and not much else) and on the last page of his/her sellable goods, there's always a couple plans, patterns. or schematics, depending on what type of merchant you are checking. I've gotten most of my tailoring patterns this way. If you ever wanted to one up the guy you could do this yourself and sell em at a few silver below his cost. =PP