From a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
Source Firkin
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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Design drawn in Paint.net, vectorised using Vector Magic and finished in Inkscape.
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From a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
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Oh yes, it happened! A pattern in full color.
Source Atle Mo
Free tiled background with colorful stripes and white splatter.
Source V. Hartikainen
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern drawn originally in Paint.net by distorting a slice of background pattern 116 and copying the resulting triangle numerous times.
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A fun-looking elastoplast/band-aid pattern. A hint of orange tone in this one.
Source Josh Green
A seamless pattern formed from a square tile. The tile can be retrieved by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-I.
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One week and it's Easter already. Thought I would revisit the decorated egg contest at inkscape community: http://forum.inkscapecommunity.com/index.php?topic=118.0
Source Lazur URH
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background
Source GDJ
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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This was formed by distorting an image of a background on Pixabay.
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Dark Tile-able Grunge Texture. I think this texture can be classified as grunge. It's free and seamless, as always.
Source V. Hartikainen
Very dark pattern with some noise and 45-degree lines.
Source Stefan Aleksić
Tile-able Dark Brown Wood Background. Feel free to use it as a background image in your designs or somewhere on the web. By the way, the color seems to be close to Coffee Brown.
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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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.
Source Firkin
Abstract Ellipses Background Grayscale
Source GDJ
A pattern drawn in Paint.net and vectorized in Vector Magic.
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As simple and subtle as it gets. But sometimes that’s just what you want.
Source Designova