Inkscape Repeating Pattern Tutorial: How to Make Seamless Geometric Vector Art

Your tutorials are great! Have been working my way through them all since retiring from my job where I used to use Inkscape for drawing simple diagrams. A suggestion: you can also rotate the triangle (that first one where you arrange the hinge) by choosing Object>Transform>Rotate and typing 30 degrees to get the exact rotation you need without having to align it by eye. Once you get the three triangle in the correct orientation, you can use the alignment tools to line up the corners, again without having to rely on doing it visually. Also, I noticed a bug in v1.3 which prevents you from being able to move objects if you've zoomed in too much.

Thanks for the video. You captured the magic and brought it with you. Walt would be proud.

Great tutorial, thank you for posting. The pattern is called Asanoha, it’s a Japanese hemp leaf pattern 👍

Great! Thank you very much 😊

really awesome...

Muchas gracias!!!!

Many thanks

thank you

Great work Sir!!

Hi Rick. Yes, its a grest design. I think however that your method in this tutorial is too approximate - I am a stickler for perfection. I would enable snapping and ensure corner snapping and rotation centre snapping is on. Then drag the rotation centre to snap to a corner and rotate by an exact amount (ctrl rotate 2 x 15 degrees or use the transform dialog to rotate by 30). degrees). Note that the corner points which you should rotate about are actually in the middle of the stroke, not on the outer edge of the stroke. The strokes should coincide, not simply be parallel with small gaps between them. Another construction method may be to start with a regular hexagon. Another way of repeating the pattern is to create a pattern fill based on a repeatable unit. I have a few videos using older versions if Inkscape on my "Inkscape for teachers" channel using these ideas. I might try and do one inspired by your video. Cheers and keep up the excellent videos - I really enjoy/appreciate them!

I had to hit reset to zero out the shift, scale, and rotation tabs on the Create Tile Clones. Artifacts left over from one of your other tutorials. :)

How would you do this in a random pattern as opposed to a geometric design?.... for example a water color design..... Great video as always!!

Hey fella, thanks for the tutorial, very useful. Just one question: if you want accuracy, why would you turn snapping off?

Hi..how to make text offset using version 1.2..t tried follow your video but not working

Hi there, How is it possible that my second duplicated triangle isn't perfectly allined with the vertical middle line of the original triangle?

Sir, Please make video on GOlden effects to words

What is the difference between copy and duplicate in Inkscape ?