The project, Re-designing patterns, investigates the possibility of reuse in pattern design and textile print and explores how a design method can be implemented in a pattern sketching process to open up for alternative aesthetics for re-design approaches and how narrative patterns can be used to higher the value of textile waste materials. According to EU directives, all member states must collect textiles separately from other waste by 2025. This means that large volumes of textiles will be collected and need to be handled. Re-designing Patterns examine how the obstacle can become an opportunity. What distinguishes textile waste from newly produced textile material is that textile waste carries time and with that comes stories, so-called narratives. These narratives can be used in a design process to create patterns that tell the story of the textile. The purpose of the re-design is to create a new aesthetic that can increase the value of the textile and to create a narrative around the textiles that can tell something about the textile’s already lived life. An imaginary catalyst is used to describe the method and works as a converter. Information/objects or motifs are inserted in the catalyst and out comes suggestions for stories, pattern repetitions and so on. The narrative from the existing textile design is placed into a catalyst where the story is converted into new patterns. The additive pattern is designed to interact with the textiles’ existing pattern and to be printed on the textile. The method used for this is called The pattern catalyst method. The result is three collections of textiles shown together in a spatial design together with a pattern key that tells the story of the textiles. The work shows the possibilities of re-design in the textile print field. It demonstrates that it is possible to work as a textile designer without producing any new material but to use the knowledge of textiles and design to give new value to what is already there.