Notice that I have duplicated and resized one of the circular shapes and it is on my page above my paisley curve. After you import it, you should click on Ungroup so you can move each of them around freely. It's easier to import the svg file so changes can be made to them if necessary. Remember those decorative patterns we made last month? Import them into your new project. Now we want to place some decorations on our object. This one will shrink inside of the original so you will have three separate curves. This time use the Path > Inset menu item or + (. Now, choose the original object and duplicate it again. You can use the menu, but the keyboard shortcut is much quicker! My preferences are set to 2 px, and we want it 20 px bigger all the way around, so we should do this ten times. Each time you press it, your new curve will grow a bit. Click on Path > Outset to increase the size of your object, or press + ). Remember that the duplicate is placed directly on top of the original, and it is now selected. Now, instead of trying to draw another one of these, we are going to duplicate this one and adjust the size. I adjusted some of them in the example below. You may still feel like adjusting a few of the nodes separately. Each of your line sections will become rounded and the curve will be much smoother. This time we want to smooth out this teardrop, so select all of your nodes by drawing a frame around them with the Node tool, BUT, before you hit Auto-Smooth, press Shift and de-select the node on the very end. When we were making our basic shapes, we used the Auto-Smooth tool to round off our leaf. Set the stroke black or gray, and the fill white. That will give us nodes to use to manipulate our shape. Using that tool, make a kind of teardrop shape, clicking with your mouse at least 10 or 12 times. Open a page in Inkscape and choose your Bezier tool.
(Wow! I don't want to have to place all those little circles by hand!) Don't worry, we'll use a different method. Then we will "pretty it up" with the small patterns we made last month.
We will start drawing the teardrop using the Bezier tool. Last month we made several small patterns to use in a project, and we will use some of them now to make our paisley. How can we make one of these? We can use Inkscape. As you can see, this is basically a curved teardrop pattern with a lot of extra patterns inside it to make it fancier.
I've found it on everything from clothing to tablecloths and from tablet and phone covers to tattoos. This sort of pattern seems to be making a comeback.
Go to Google, search for paisley, and you can find tons of patterns! One of my high school friends, very talented artistically, painted her yellow car with hundreds of paisley patterns on our last school day before graduation. I grew up in the 1960's, and sometimes we wore some pretty wild stuff. Inkscape Tutorial: Create A Paisley Pattern, Part One
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