Are you talking about something that looks like the attached?

If so, I can put together a video later, since it's a bit of an advanced 
topic, but in a nutshell the magic happens with using "pattern along 
path" under path effects.  You just have to draw one of the threads. 
Then use that one thread as the input for your patten.  Then set the 
Pattern Along Path to do a repeated pattern and adjust the spacing to 
your liking.

Brian Cluff

On 01/18/2016 05:01 PM, Michael Havens wrote:
> Thanks Brian. I understand how this forum thing works..... your question
> gets an answer when people who can answer have the time.
>    A good way to describe the border is a barrel that has had the first
> scratch of threads being etched into it. then it is cut in half and it
> is turned into a ring with the flat part being face down. Like this
> twisted into a ring:
> ____________________________________
> _////////////////////////////////////__////////////////////////////////////_
> _|_                              Havens                            |
> |                                                                       |
> |______________Photography___________|
> _////////////////////////////////////__////////////////////////////////////_
> __
> And then I'll put the date that I take the pictures into the middle in a
> different font and perhaps a different color as well.
>
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