Inspired by a drawing in 'Kulturgeschichte', Freidrich Hellwald, 1896.
Source Firkin
Zero CC tileable hard cover green book, scanned and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Horizontal and vertical lines on a light gray background.
Source Adam Anlauf
Semi-light fabric pattern made out of random pixels in shades of gray.
Source Atle Mo
A simple bump filter made upon request at irc #inkscape at freenode. Made a screen capture of the making here: https://youtu.be/TGAWYKVLxQw
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A seamless pattern the starting point for which was a 'rainbow twist' texture in Paint.net.
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This was formed by distorting an image of a background on Pixabay.
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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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From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
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Alternative colour scheme for the original floral pattern.
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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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From a drawing in 'Line and form', Walter Crane, 1914.
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Greyscale version of a pattern that came out of playing with the 'light rays' plug-in for Paint.net
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Alternative colour scheme for the original floral pattern.
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If you want png files of this u can download them here : viscious-speed.deviantart.com/gallery/27635117
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Formed by distorting the inside front cover of 'Diversæ insectarum volatilium : icones ad vivum accuratissmè depictæ per celeberrimum pictorem', Jacob Hoefnagel, 1630.
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Abstract Arbitrary Geometric Background derived from an image on Pixabay.
Source GDJ
Subtle scratches on a light gray background.
Source Andrey Ovcharov
More tactile goodness. This time in the form of some rough cloth.
Source Bartosz Kaszubowski
Greyscale version of a pattern that came out of playing with the 'slinky' plug-in for Paint.net
Source Firkin