From a drawing in 'Uit de geschiedenis der Heilige Stede te Amsterdam', Yohannes Sterck, 1898.
Source Firkin
A large pattern with funky shapes and form. An original. Sort of origami-ish.
Source Luuk van Baars
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
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Prismatic Snowflakes Pattern No Background
Source GDJ
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
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Embossed lines and squares with subtle highlights.
Source Alex Parker
The rectangular tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Inspired by a pattern seen on a public domain image of a very old tile. To get the unit cell, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
The tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Remixed from a design seen on Pixabay. The basic tile can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Might not be super subtle, but quite original in its form.
Source Alex Smith
First pattern tailor-made for Retina, with many more to come. All the old ones are upscaled, in case you want to re-download.
Source Atle Mo
Remixed from a raster on Pixabay that was uploaded by ArtsyBee.
Source Firkin
Background formed from the original with an emboss effect
Source GDJ
More in the paper realm, this time with fibers.
Source Jorge Fuentes
It has waves, so make sure you don’t get sea sickness.
Source CoolPatterns
Abstract Tiled Background Extended 6
Source GDJ
This was formed by distorting an image of a background on Pixabay.
Source Firkin
Based on several public domain drawings on Wikimedia Commons. This was formed from a rectangular tile. The tile can be accessed in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift-alt-i
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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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After 1 comes 2, same but different. You get the idea.
Source Hendrik Lammers
Similar to original, but without gaps in between the arrows. This seamless pattern was created from a rectangular tile. To get the tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
One can never have too few rice paper patterns, so here is one more.
Source Atle Mo
Remixed from a PNG that was uploaded to Pixabay by VictorianLady
Source Firkin