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Written by Misted Morpheus.

Quite a few of you have asked me how I did the weave,
so I'm writing a quickie for y'all. Hope this helps!!
I started out with a new image, white 400x400
Click on the rounded rectangle Path Drawing Tool,
whatever color you want, 3D round.
(for the tag above, I used Magic Texture Fill - MT06)
Make a thin (but not too thin) long rectangle either
vertically or horizontally. Dupicate it 2 times and move
them around a bit so they're 'staggered', leaving a bit
of space between them (see tag for detail)
Now, right click on your image and go to 'select all
objects'. Right click again, and go to 'merge as single
object'. Once you have them grouped, duplicate, and on
[resize] rotate and flip, click 'rotate right (or
left) 90°. With these, line them up to wherever you
like against the first group.
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Now, keeping this group active, click your eraser
tool. Just play around with size, but I do suggest
the square shape, rectangular, set softness to very
low.. say 5 or below. Try to get your size of eraser
to approximately the width of your objects, without
going over. Adjust as needed. :) Now, all you
need to do is erase every other line.
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And you'll get something like this.. if you're not
happy with it, go back and undo and redo. PI (like
PSP) isn't set in stone, yanno :) Once you
have erased like you want, then right click, select
all objects and merge as a single. Now add your tube,
or whatever else you want. VOILA.. you're done!
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