To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Inspired by a drawing seen in 'City of Liverpool', James Picton, 1883.
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Remixed from a drawing in 'Line and form", Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
To get the repeating unit, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i
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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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The tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Design drawn in Paint.net, vectorised using Vector Magic and finished in Inkscape.
Source Firkin
Recreated from a pattern found in 'Az Osztrák-Magyar Monarchia irásban és képben', 1882. To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
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A seamless pattern formed from cross 4. To get the original tile select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
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This is so subtle I hope you can see it! Tweak at will.
Source Alexandre Naud
Alternative colour scheme. Not a pattern for fabrics, but one produced from a jpg of a stack of fabric items that was posted on Pixabay. The tile that this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
A new one called white wall, not by me this time.
Source Yuji Honzawa
Here's a brown background pattern with subtle stripes. I hope you'll like the color. If not, feel free to change it using an image editor, if you know how of course. Personally, I'm using GIMP to create these backgrounds.
Source V. Hartikainen
Super detailed 16×16 tile that forms a beautiful pattern of straws.
Source Pavel
A hint of orange color, and some crossed and embossed lines.
Source Adam Anlauf
Dark, square, clean and tidy. What more can you ask for?
Source Jaromír Kavan
Sort of like the Photoshop transparent background, but better!
Source Alex Parker
In the spirit of WWDC 2011, here is a dark iOS inspired linen pattern.
Source Atle Mo
Bigger is better, right? So here you have some large carbon fiber.
Source Factorio.us Collective
Derived from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by Darkmoon1968
Source Firkin
The starting point for this was a texture drawn with the 'Radial Colors' plug-in in Paint.net.
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