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The half-drop and brick patterns, which have many uses, are the standard repeats in textile design. They can be readily created using the Half-drop and Brick layouts in the SymmetryWorks palette.
The half-drop repeat: The French textile design of 1800
In this exercise you will create a variation of an 1800 French textile design reproduced in Peter Phillips and Gillian Bunce, Repeat Patterns: A Manual for Designers, Artists and Architects, Thames and Hudson, 1993, London, p. 71. You can just as well create your own pattern.
1 Open the file FrenchTextile1800.ai, which accompanies this tutorial, or draw a few shapes yourself.
2 In the Layout list in the SymmetryWorks palette, click the Half-drop layout. 3 Select all objects in the artwork (for example, using Select All from the Edit menu) and click the Make button in the SymmetryWorks palette. The half-drop pattern appears. Depending on the size of your initial shapes, the neighboring units of repeat may overlap or be located too far away from each other. This can be adjusted by tweaking the size of the control path. 4 To locate the control path, make sure that the elements of the patterns are still selected and click the Select Control Path button in the SymmetryWorks palette. 5 Click the free-transform tool in the Illustrator toolbox and move one of the upper free-transform handles vertically up. Then similarly adjust the horizontal size of the control path by moving one of the handles on the right.
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