Category Archives: pattern
Creating paisley designs
This very detailed tutorial by Syllie from Very Simple Designs explains how to create popular paisley motifs used in fabric and stationery designs. Not only you will learn to use Spiro curves, path insets and the Pattern along path extension, but you’ll understand better the nature of paisley patterns — how they are constructed, how they are decorated and what last finishing steps you can take to improve your design.

Create Playing Cards – a video tutorial by screencasters.heathenx.org
Another awesome video tutorial by the screencasters.heathenx.org guys.
in this one, they demonstrate how to make playing cards.
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postage stamps in inkscape – a tutorial by nicu
here is another awesome tutorial by nicu. In it he demonstrates how to create simple postage stamps using Inkscape. What is really nice about this tutorial is that nicu demonstrates the 3 different ways of aligning circles around the edge of the rectangle to get the perforated edge effect that postage stamps have…
this tutorial is well worth a look.

pattern on path – arrowed colour wheel
create a woodgrain effect
here is a nice and simple tutorial for creating a woodgrain effect using inkscape.
the original tutorial of this is the Deutsch translation.
Tips for using brushes in Inkscape: A tutorial by Nicu
here is another great tutorial by Nicu that demonstrates how to utilise “brushes” in inkscape. He covers topics such as Stamping, pattern on paths and interpolation. This is a great little collection of tips and tricks, so check it out…

Inkscape Tutorial by heathenx: Create Tiled Clones
here is another cool video tutorial by heathenx.
In it he demonstrates basic use to the tiled clones feature in inkscape. with the tiled clones he creates a simple checkerboard background.
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