From a design found in 'History of the Virginia Company of London; with letters to and from the first Colony, never before printed', Edward Neill, 1869.
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Different from the original in being a simple tile stored as a pattern definition, rather than numerous repeated objects. Hence easy and quick to give this pattern to objects of different shapes. To get the tile in Inkscape, select the rectangle and use shift+alt+i.
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A pattern derived from part of a fractal rendering in Paint.net.
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Pattern that came out of playing with the 'slinky' plug-in for Paint.net
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A grid of squares with green colours. Since the colours are randomly distributed it is automatically seamless.
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From a drawing in 'Les Chroniqueurs de l'Histoire de France depuis les origines jusqu'au XVIe siècle', Henriette Witt, 1884.
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Alternative colour scheme for the original floral pattern.
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Colour version of a pattern that came out of playing with the 'light rays' plug-in for Paint.net
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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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A lovely light gray pattern with stripes and a dash of noise.
Source V. Hartikainen
Here's a tile-able wood background image for use in web design.
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Seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.
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Lovely pattern with some good-looking non-random noise lines.
Source Zucx
Drawn in Paint.net and vectorised in Vector Magic.
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Simple gray checkered lines, in light tones.
Source Radosław Rzepecki
This seamless background image should look nice on websites. It has a dark blue gray texture with vertical stripes, it tiles seamlessly and, like all of the background images here, it's free. So, if you like it, take it!
Source V. Hartikainen
To get the repeating unit, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i
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A floral background formed from numerous clones of flower 117.
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I love these crisp, tiny, super subtle patterns.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
Number five from the same submitter, makes my job easy.
Source Dima Shiper
A version without colours blended together to give a different look.
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