You are not going to be able to walk up to a merhcnat and just buy these...at least not until SOE let up on the artisan class interdepencies. These patterns are ONLY made by other players..so....
There are a couple of ways you can get these patterns:
1) Check the broker. On steamfont, this is pretty usless as they only rarely appear and are often priced at 20+sp
2) Ask a guildie craftsman. I also tried this, it worked well, I was getting patterns for 2sp each but ultimately the wait for them was a pain in the ****
3) Level up a new character to become craftsman. I was fortunate in this respect as I had a mage I had just gotten of IoR so was good to go. I handed over stacks of frogslegs, fish, tin and LQ pelts as well as all the other required ingredients for making stuff from my main toon. It then took about 2 hours to get to level 10, craftsman. Almost immediately after hitting level 10 I was able to make pristine burlap patterns and now have as many as I need. Mind you, having to buy stroma wash and the like on the broker, each one comes to about 2s each to make, so I'm not getting them any cheaper...just when I want and as many as I want.
I hope that helps :)
Minky
Edited, Wed Dec 15 05:00:56 2004 by Izzozz
Edited, Wed Dec 15 05:06:20 2004 by Izzozz