Difference between revisions of "Inkscape/C4/Warli-art-for-Textle-design/English"

• Warli pattern design for borders
• Repeat patterns using cloning

• Ubuntu Linux 12.04 OS
• Inkscape version 0.91

First let us design the warli pattern.

• Click on Document Properties.
• Change the Orientation to Landscape.
• Close the dialog box.

Draw a rectangle covering the whole canvas and color it blue.

• Click on the Ellipse tool.
• Draw a circle outside the canvas.
• Then, click on the Selector tool.

Change its color to orange.

Move it to the bottom of the canvas as shown.

Move the duplicated circle to the bottom left of the original circle.

This is the head of the warli figure.

• Go to Object menu.
• Click on Symbols options.
• Click on Symbol set drop-down menu.
• Select Flow Chart Shapes.

• Click the triangle shape and drag it to the canvas.
• Change the color to orange.
• And remove the Stroke.

Arrange the triangles below the head, as shown.

This is the body of the warli figure.

And draw a line in between the head and the body.

Now the neck of the figure is drawn. .

For this, we will select the Bezier tool.

Select both the hands and legs.

Let us now create a round pattern with this warli figure.

Now, click once more on the figure, to make the anchor point visible.

Click on Clone and then on Create Tiled Clones.

Under Per column option, change the X value to -100.

Change the Per row and Per column parameters of the angle to 30.

Change the number of columns to 12.

Then click on Create button.

Click on Create

Click on Create.

To make it a complete round pattern change the number of Rows to 40.

<<PAUSE>>

Select the single warli figure and place it at the centre of the spiral, like this.

In the sub-menu that appears, select Scatter.

Here, check the Follow path orientation checkbox.

Point to Duplicate the pattern before deformation >> check

• Original pattern will be is set to Moved
• and Duplicate the pattern before deformation is also checked.

Now, select the spiral path and delete it.

Likewise, we can create many other lovely warli patterns.

<<PAUSE>>

Click on the triangle shape and drag it to the canvas.

All the previous settings are visible here..

Then click on Create button.

Select all the triangles and press Ctrl + G to group them all together.

Tool controls bar

Press V to flip it.

<<PAUSE>>

Let us summarize.

In this tutorial we have learnt to create

• Warli pattern for textiles
• Repeat patterns using cloning

• Create a peacock pattern design

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