From a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Resa i Afrika, genom Angola, Ovampo och Damaraland', P. Moller, 1899.
Source Firkin
It’s like Shine Dotted’s sister, only rotated 45 degrees.
Source mediumidee
A monochrome pattern from a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscaope and using shift+alt+i
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A free black metallic background pattern. Here's a new pattern I made that looks metallic.
Source V. Hartikainen
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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Design drawn in Paint.net, vectorised using Vector Magic and finished in Inkscape.
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A lovely light gray pattern with stripes and a dash of noise.
Source V. Hartikainen
Remixed from a drawing in 'Chambéry à la fin du XIVe siècle', Timoleon Chapperon, 1863.
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A fun-looking elastoplast/band-aid pattern. A hint of orange tone in this one.
Source Josh Green
Dark, lines, noise, tactile. You get the drift.
Source Anatoli Nicolae
Remixed from a drawing in 'Kulturgeschichte der Deutschen im Mittelalter' Franz von Loeher, 1891. The unit tile can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i
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Bumps, highlight and shadows – all good things.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
Remixed from a drawing in 'Analecta Eboracensia', Thomas Widdrington, 1897.
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This one is super crisp at 2X. Lined paper with some dust and scratches.
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White fabric looking texture with some nice random wave features.
Source Hendrik Lammers
Could be paper, could be a Polaroid frame – up to you!
Source Chaos
A light background pattern with diagonal stripes. Here's a simple light striped background for you.
Source V. Hartikainen
To get the tile this is based on, 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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Greyscale version of a pattern that came out of playing with the 'slinky' plug-in for Paint.net
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