Creating Custom Patterns
You can make your own patterns in Inkscape. A pattern can consist of a texture (i.e. a raster image like *.jpg or *.png that you imported), a group, a path, shape objects, …
Select the object that you would like use as a pattern, and then tell the software to turn it into a pattern via Fill and Stroke dialog, next to the stock patterns that come with Inkscape.
. Your pattern will appear on the canvas, applied to a rectangle. It will now also be available in theThe Pattern to Objects option in the same menu allows you to do the opposite operation. This is useful when you want to modify a pattern, or want to extract an object from it.
Your first patterns may look a little surprising to you. When you start designing beautiful seamless patterns, you are engaging in the art of illustration.