From a drawing in 'Heroes of North African Discovery', Nancy Meugens, 1894.
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern the starting point for which was a 'light rays' rendering in Paint.net.
Source Firkin
Remixed from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by Pixeline
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The name is totally random, but hey, it sounds good.
Source Atle Mo
From a drawing in 'At home', J. Sowerby, J. Crane and T. Frederick, 1881.
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A seamless pattern with wide vertical stripes colored in pale yellow.
Source V. Hartikainen
Adapted heavily from a JPG that was uploaded to Pixabay by Viscious-Speed.
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Colour version that is close to the original drawing uploaded to Pixabay by pencilparker.
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A seamless pattern the unit cell for which can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
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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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Just to prove my point, here is a slightly modified dark version.
Source Atle Mo
This one has rusty dark brown texture.
Source V. Hartikainen
Remixed from a drawing in 'Some account of the Worshipful Company of Ironmongers', John Nicholl, 1866.
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Derived from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by Darkmoon1968
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This ladies and gentlemen, is texturetastic! Love it.
Source Adam Pickering
Background formed from the original with an emboss effect.
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From a drawing in 'Hundert Jahre in Wort und Bild', S. Stefan, 1899.
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Stefan is hard at work, this time with a funky pattern of squares.
Source Stefan Aleksić
Number 3 in a series of 5 beautiful patterns. Can be found in colors on the submitter’s website.
Source Janos Koos
Light gray version of the Binding pattern that looks a bit like fabric.
Source Newbury
Adapted from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by Anerma.
Source Firkin
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
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A car pattern?! Can it be subtle? I say yes!
Source Radosław Rzepecki