From a drawing in 'In an Enchanted Island', William Mallock, 1892.
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An orange vertically striped background pattern. Feel free to download and use this orange background pattern, for example, on the web). It resembles a wallpaper with vertical stripes or something similar to it.
Source V. Hartikainen
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
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Drawn in Paint.net and vectorised in Vector Magic.
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Vector version of a png that was uploaded to Pixabay by pencilparker
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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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In the spirit of WWDC 2011, here is a dark iOS inspired linen pattern.
Source Atle Mo
The tile this is formed from can be retrieved in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i
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A seamless chequerboard pattern formed from a tile that can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i. Alternative colour scheme.
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Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
A free seamless background with pink spots.
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Three shades of gray makes this pattern look like a small carbon fiber surface. Great readability even for small fonts.
Source Atle Mo
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
A seamless background drawn in Paint.net and vectorised with Vector Magic. The starting point was a photograph of drinking straws from Pixabay.
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Seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be extracted by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.
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Submitted by DomainsInfo – wtf, right? But hey, a free pattern.
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Submitted as a black pattern, I made it light and a few steps more subtle.
Source Andy
Looks a bit like concrete with subtle specks spread around the pattern.
Source Mladjan Antic
Used correctly, this could be nice. Used in a bad way, all hell will break loose.
Source Atle Mo
More Japanese-inspired patterns, Gold Scales this time.
Source Josh Green
If you want png files of this u can download them here : viscious-speed.deviantart.com/gallery/27635117
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A background pattern with green vertical stripes. A new striped background pattern. This time a green one.
Source V. Hartikainen
A seamless pattern of leopard skin. It should look nice as a background element on web pages.
Source V. Hartikainen
Prismatic Curved Diamond Pattern 6 No Background
Source GDJ