From a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
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A pattern formed from a squared tile. The tile can be accessed in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift-alt-i.
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A textured orange background pattern with vertical stripes.
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More in the paper realm, this time with fibers.
Source Jorge Fuentes
Pattern that came out of playing with the 'slinky' plug-in for Paint.net
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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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An alternative colour scheme for the original background.
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Seamless Green Tile Background
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Inspired by a pattern I saw in a 19th century book. This seamless pattern was created from a square tile. To get the tile, select the pattern in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
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Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 4
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Retro Circles Background 7 No Black
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Dead simple but beautiful horizontal line pattern.
Source Fabian Schultz
Remixed from a drawing in 'Chambéry à la fin du XIVe siècle', Timoleon Chapperon, 1863.
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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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Imagine you zoomed in 1000X on some fabric. But then it turned out to be a skeleton!
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Have you wondered about how it feels to be buried alive? Here is the pattern for it.
Source Hendrik Lammers
A seamless background texture of old cardboard.
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A lovely light gray pattern with stripes and a dash of noise.
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Adapted heavily from a JPG that was uploaded to Pixabay by Viscious-Speed.
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Remixed from a design seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857. The tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
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Derived from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by Kaz
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