Creating A Thatched/Rattan Material? Trying to make a thatched material (for my lamp shade). Like a rattan type look. Can't figure this one out for the life of me. Here's an example: http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/t/rattan-texture-5839027.jpg

How would you make something similar?

Thanks!
One way to get this would be:


Add a plane, in Edit Mode subdivide W
Poke Alt-P


This should look like:




In top view Numpad-7 rotate 45° R 4 5
Scale along X-Axis S X  
Select one of the new (poked) vertices and select Amount of connecting edges from the Shift-G popup
Move the selected vertices upward G Z




In Object Mode add a Subdivision Surface* modifier with subdivisions set to 3:




Bake the normals of the resulting mesh to an unwraped plane and use the image as normal map.