Inspired by a pattern found in 'A General History of Hampshire, or the County of Southampton, including the Isle of Wight', Bernard Woodwood, 1861
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A version without colours blended together to give a different look.
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CC0 and a seamless pattern from a tile drawn in Paint.net .
Source SliverKnight
Classic 45-degree pattern, light version.
Source Luke McDonald
This background pattern contains a texture of yellow wood planks. I think it looks quite original.
Source V. Hartikainen
A pattern formed from a squared tile. The tile can be accessed in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift-alt-i.
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There are many carbon patterns, but this one is tiny.
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A seamless background drawn in Paint.net and vectorised with Vector Magic. The starting point was a photograph of drinking straws from Pixabay.
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To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i
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From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
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Made by distorting a simple pattern using the 'sin waves' plugin for Paint.net and vectorising in Vector Magic
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Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
This texture looks like old leather. It should look great as a background on web pages.
Source V. Hartikainen
Remixed from a raster on Pixabay, that was uploaded by ArtsyBee.
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Black & white version of a pattern that came out of playing with the 'light rays' plug-in for Paint.net
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A simple example on using clones. You can generate a nice base for a pattern fill quickly with it.
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Bumps, highlight and shadows – all good things.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
Scanned some rice paper and tiled it up for you. Enjoy.
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From a drawing in 'At home', J. Sowerby, J. Crane and T. Frederick, 1881.
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From a drawing in 'Cowdray: the history of a great English House', Julia Roundell, 1884.
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Same as gray sand but lighter. A sandy pattern with small light dots, and some angled strokes.
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