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Next, select your Pattern, and copy it to the clipboard with Edit > Copy or Control+C. Note however that your Spine Path or your Pattern will not change during this step. It will add the Pattern Along Path effect. With the Spine Path selected, open up the Path Effects dialog ( Path > Path Effects), Click the + button, and choose the Pattern Along Path option from the dialog. In this tutorial we are going to call it our Spine Path. But for this example, we just have a simple rounded-cornered frame. In the example image above, the shape i used was a series of paths to form the letters “rope”. Next, create the shape that you want your rope to be. In this tutorial, we are going to call it our pattern. Using the pen tool in inkscape, draw a the shape that will make up the part of our rope that will be repeated. This technique is super useful for drawing a whole bunch of different vector assets with inkscape, like rope or laurel wreaths or anything that has a simple shape that is repeated along a path.Ĭreate the rope element to pattern to repeat

In this tutorial, learn how to draw vector ropes in Inkscape using the Pattern on Path path effect with inkscape.