Remixed from a drawing in 'Hungary. A guide book. By several authors', 1890.
Source Firkin
Made by distorting a simple pattern using the 'sin waves' plugin for Paint.net and vectorising in Vector Magic
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A seamless background pattern with impressed gray dots.
Source V. Hartikainen
From a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
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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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Utilising some flowers from Almeidah. To get the unit tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
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Prismatic Chevrons Pattern 5 With Background
Source GDJ
Tweed is back in style – you heard it here first. Also, the @2X version here is great!
Source Simon Leo
Seamless pattern the tile for which can be had by using shift-alt-I on the selected rectangle in Inkscape.
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Classic vertical lines, in all its subtlety.
Source Cody L
From a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
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People seem to enjoy dark patterns, so here is one with some circles.
Source Atle Mo
In the spirit of WWDC 2011, here is a dark iOS inspired linen pattern.
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Psychedelic Geometric Background No Black
Source GDJ
Inspired by a drawing in 'Kulturgeschichte', Freidrich Hellwald, 1896.
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From a drawing in 'Artists and Arabs', Henry Blackburn, 1868
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It has waves, so make sure you don’t get sea sickness.
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From a drawing in 'Les Chroniqueurs de l'Histoire de France depuis les origines jusqu'au XVIe siècle', Henriette Witt, 1884.
Source Firkin
A repeating background with a look of paper. I have added some changes to PatCreator. Now you can share your designs by submitting them to a new gallery section. Start by clicking Edit with PatCreator above.
Source V. Hartikainen
This background pattern contains a seamless texture of bark. It's not very realistic, but I think it looks quite nice.
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A playful triangle pattern with different shades of gray.
Source Dimitrie Hoekstra
Formed from decorative divider 184 in paint.net. Vectorised with Vector Magic.
Source Firkin