Creating a Basket Weave Fill in CorelDRAW

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Creating a Basket Weave Fill in CorelDRAW

This tutorial guides you through the creation of a basket weave fill in CorelDRAW 7. You'll find that these techniques will also work in many other versions.

For this tutorial you may want to add several colors to your palette, or you can substitute your own: Murkey Green, CMYK 0-0-20-80, a Light Green CMYK 10-0-30-20, a Medium Green CMYK 10-0-55-30, a Dark Green CMYK 10-0-55-60 and a Beige CMYK 0-10-30-7.

Begin a new CorelDRAW file and add the following guidelines:

VERTICAL GUIDELINES AT: 1 1/4", 2 1/8", 6 3/8" and 7 1/4"
HORIZONTAL GUIDELINES AT: 2 1/2", 3 3/8", 7 5/8" and 8 1/2"

You will see that the guidelines created two squares. Enable Snap to Guidelines (icon found on Property Bar when no objects are selected) and draw a rectangle around the SMALLER of the two squares with a black outline of 0.04 inches and NO FILL. This is just a guide to indicate where your pattern will go and it will be removed later.

Click on the Graph Paper Tool. On the Property bar, make the number of cells 20 HIGH and 20 WIDE.

With the Graph Tool, draw a graph on the OUTSIDE square of guidelines. The Snap to Guidelines setting should still be enabled. Fill the graph with white and put it to the back (Arrange | Order | To Back).

With the graph still "selected", rotate 45 degrees as shown at right. The Guidelines are shown to help you understand their relationship to the graph.

Ungroup the graph.

Following the pattern shown at left, fill each square with the appropriate color. If you make a mistake, refill the square with white. It is important that you do not use the X to remove the fill.

CAREFULLY following the pattern at right, Weld (use the icon on the Property Bar) each two squares together to make rectangles.

Following the image at left, change each Light Green rectangle slanting to the right to a TWO COLORED FILL (don't forget the Interactive Fill Tool) Do one rectangle first. Select the TWO COLOR FILL. Click on the down arrow to see more patterns. Use one of the dotted line fills that are grouped towards the end of the TWO COLORED FILL, small size. Make the back color the Light Green and the front color the Dark Green. Then hold down the Shift Key and catch all the other ones and use Copy Properties From (Edit | Copy Properties From.)

Change the left slanting rectangles to Medium Green and leave the remaining ones Murky Green.

Take a break and come back in a few minutes. Sometimes it is hard to see the forest from the trees.

Next, delete the black outline around your pattern. You will create the pattern over the inside square. Select Tools | Create | Pattern. Choose FULL COLOR PATTERN and follow the instructions. You will be putting it in the Full Color Pattern file so give it a name a little different than just Basket, as there already is a Basket fill.

Follow the same instruction for making the second fill shown at right. You will only need the Light Green and the Medium Green.

SAVE YOUR FILE.

Now for practice draw a nice sized OVAL. Select the Interactive Fill Tool and select the Full Color Pattern Fill. Click the down arrow on the Property Bar to bring down the pop-up menu. Scroll down to the end and your basket fills should be there. You will have three sizes to choose from. I used large fills on the outside of the smaller basket and a medium fill for the inside view at the top of the basket. On the larger basket I used a large fill for the bottom but scaled the pattern with object under Tiling. I did the same thing with the inside view using a medium fill. If for some reason your pattern isn't there, click LOAD and the Pattern File should come up. Select your Basket Fill from there.

This pattern will rotate 45 and 90 degrees and still look good!

Now all you have to do is draw some baskets! Below you will see two examples.

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_{Last Updated February 21, 1999.}

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