From a drawing in 'Navigations de Alouys de Cademoste.-La Navigation du Capitaine Pierre Sintre', Alvise da ca da Mosto, 1895.
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Remixed from a JPG that was uploaded to Pixabay by theasad121
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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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The original enhanced with some gradients.
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Like the name says, light and gray, with some small dots and circles.
Source Brenda Lay
A repeating background with dark brown stone-like texture and abstract pattern that looks like tree trunks.
Source V. Hartikainen
That’s what it is, a dark dot. Or sort of carbon looking.
Source Tsvetelin Nikolov
Old China with a modern twist, take two.
Source Adam Charlts
Simple gray checkered lines, in light tones.
Source Radosław Rzepecki
I love these crisp, tiny, super subtle patterns.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
Remixed from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by Pixeline
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This was formed by distorting an image of a background on Pixabay.
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Remixed from a design seen on Pixabay. The basic tile can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using 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.
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Horizontal and vertical lines on a light gray background.
Source Adam Anlauf
As simple and subtle as it gets. But sometimes that’s just what you want.
Source Designova
Abstract Arbitrary Geometric Background derived from an image on Pixabay.
Source GDJ
Can never have too many knitting patterns, especially as nice as this.
Source Victoria Spahn
Number 5 in a series of 5 beautiful patterns. Can be found in colors on the submitter’s website.
Source Janos Koos
Continuing the geometric trend, here is one more.
Source Mike Warner
People seem to enjoy dark patterns, so here is one with some circles.
Source Atle Mo