Utilising some flowers from Almeidah. To get the unit tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
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Alternative colour scheme for the original floral pattern.
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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.
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Inspired by a 1930s wallpaper pattern I saw on TV.
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Traced from a drawing in 'Household Stories from the Collection of the Brothers Grimm', Wilhelm Carl Grimm , 1882.
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From a drawing in 'Jardyne's Wife', Charles Wills, 1891.
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I guess this is inspired by the city of Ravenna in Italy and its stone walls.
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Dark pattern with some nice diagonal stitched lines crossing over.
Source Ashton
CC0 and a seamless pattern from a tile drawn in Paint.net .
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Inspired by the B&O Play, I had to make this pattern.
Source Atle Mo
The image depicts polka dot seamless pattern.
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Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 3 No Black
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A seamless pale yellow paper background with a pattern of animal tracks.
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Adapted heavily from a JPG that was uploaded to Pixabay by Viscious-Speed.
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A seamless chequerboard pattern formed from a tile that can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i.
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Medium gray pattern with small strokes to give a weave effect.
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A seamlessly repeating background pattern of wood. The image is procedurally generated, and, I think, it's turned out quite well.
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In the spirit of WWDC 2011, here is a dark iOS inspired linen pattern.
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Pixel by pixel, sharp and clean. Very light pattern with clear lines.
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This was formed by distorting an image of a background on Pixabay.
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Design drawn in Paint.net, vectorised using Vector Magic and finished in Inkscape.
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