It was a combination of "How do I do this?" and "Here's a braided circle graphic if you need it" for a group I'm a member of.

I got it to work with a six-piece pattern.
Reducing the spacing and tangential spacing brought it all together.

Ah! That's much better!

I still have gaps between the elements, but can play around with that. Thank you SO much for your advice!

I think I am creating the initial pattern piece wrong - the one I flip and duplicate to make four copies of. I am also not sure what you mean by 'combine' - do you mean Group the objects?

See attached for my humble mistakes.

I cannot duplicate your results. Can you be more simplistic?

Hmm. That's a shame. It seems like something that people would want to do.

OK, I am about to throw my computer out the window here. I have created a section of a three-colored braid. I draw a big circle, I convert stroke to path, I press CTRL+SHIFT+7 and add a Pattern Along Path. I copy my object to the clipboard. I reselect the path and click the "Link path to clipbo...

Fantastic! Thanks!

I have little to no artistic skills and cannot draw what I am thinking of freehand. Here is a photo of a three-strand braid: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6f/Braid_StepBystep.jpg Now imagine taking that braid in the last photo on the lower right and making a spiral out of it. http:...

I am very new to vector drawing and have a particular problem I am hoping the community can solve. It can be broken down (I believe) into two steps: 1) I want to create what looks like a braid of three colored cords or stripes - white, red, and black. It doesn't have to look like actual cords and ca...