Episode 071
Episode 071 – Fabric Stitching
by heathenx
In this screencast I will try to simulate fabric stitching in Inkscape v0.46.
The idea for this screencast came from the amazing Photoshop tutorial website PSHERO.com. I don’t use Photoshop but many of their tutorials can be adapted to Inkscape. Be sure to check out their other brilliant tutorials as well. Thank-you PSHERO. 
Moreover, there are many websites that offer free textures. Checkout CGTextures.com. The two textures that I used for this tutorial can be downloaded below:
September 20th, 2008 at 4:49 pm
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September 20th, 2008 at 6:52 pm
Great adaptation! Thanks for the link and compliments! -HERO
September 20th, 2008 at 7:29 pm
WOW that is fantastic YOU ARE THE BEST!
September 20th, 2008 at 8:28 pm
Pretty good! Things get very easy when you explain them.. thanks..
September 21st, 2008 at 9:53 am
Great tutorial!
September 21st, 2008 at 1:10 pm
To compensate for the bitmap pattern ’stitches’ artifacts, increase the bitmap oversampling setting in the preferences.
September 21st, 2008 at 2:23 pm
Dood, I will never stop reading this blog.
This particular tut will help me with a clothing website that I’m designing right now.
Many thanks, keep up the good work.
September 21st, 2008 at 4:20 pm
Great Episode! Thanks!
September 22nd, 2008 at 6:23 am
Thanks everybody.
@Jakub
Great tip. I don’t think I ever noticed that setting before.
September 22nd, 2008 at 7:12 pm
Great work heathenx. Thanks.
work : http://www.imagup.com/img/niceboy/214981.html
September 22nd, 2008 at 9:43 pm
That is a wonderful tutorial. Great use of the Paths Effects. You’re great. Congratulations!!
September 23rd, 2008 at 6:06 am
@niceboy
Nice work.
September 23rd, 2008 at 7:40 am
Heathen you silly man you! I check this blog several times daily. Another great tut of course, now we need something from Richard. =)
September 24th, 2008 at 8:58 pm
I check here everyday…
September 26th, 2008 at 2:28 am
I also stalk you guys’ blog, and I daresay 90% of my knowledge of Inkscape comes from hours of watching and rewatching these videos <.< Keep up the good work. Pattern Along Path was the first effect I learned, so I’m attached to it, and it’s awesome seeing it get even more attention.
September 26th, 2008 at 9:59 am
Hey, awesome project and well presented! I was just linked here from planet.gnome.org… I can’t believe you’ve been doing this so long and I’ve never seen it before.
When doing the “pinking shears” effect, I found that an easier way to do it is to create a rotated square and make Tiled Clones of it in a rectangle, then delete the clones inside the rectangle. Then you can Unlink the clones, Union the squares into a single path, and Difference it from the background rectangle. Does that make sense?
September 26th, 2008 at 10:22 am
@Ben
Yup, that makes perfect sense. Great tip. I figured that the crafty would figure out several ways of going about this. I thought of a few myself.
Richard and I have been at this for about a year and a half now. Before we existed here we were posting individually on YouTube. Our videos are still there. When you get to YouTube do a search for “Inkscape”. You can find some on blip.tv too.
Richard and I do not advertise much and that’s probably why you hadn’t noticed us before. We a bit “word-of-mouth”. As of recently, you can also find us on Graphics Planet and LinuxPlanet.org and we uploaded a few over at ShowMeDo (< - these guys have a lot of great content).
Glad you found us. Hope you enjoy what you see.
September 26th, 2008 at 11:20 am
Hey heathenx,
Thanks for answering my request from the Flickr pages… I spotted this tut at PSHERO too (as i use it for Photoshop), but didn’t know how to interperate CS3 methods into inkscape methods(although i regularly use CS3 for some stuff- My icon for example).
This should come in useful for my school DT project!
Thanks,
MWUK
September 26th, 2008 at 12:22 pm
@MWUK
I knew exactly what you were referring to when you suggested it. I also lifted the license plate graphic that I posted to flickr from PSHERO too. What a great resource that website is. I love it.
September 27th, 2008 at 3:42 pm
Would love to see a screencast on the the plate…
September 27th, 2008 at 7:20 pm
@Darth_Gimp – what do you mean ‘on the plate’? Forgive me, I’m slow. Or so I’m told.
June 4th, 2009 at 6:08 am
Thanks for a great tutorial. Well explained and nicely paced for those of us just discovering our way with Inkscape.