From a drawing in 'Real Sailor-Songs', John Ashton, 1891.
Source Firkin
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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Remixed from a drawing in 'Jezebel's Daughter', Wilkie Collins 1880
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Tiny little fibers making a soft and sweet look.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
A dark pattern made out of 3×3 circles and a 1px shadow. This works well as a carbon texture or background.
Source Atle Mo
A background pattern with wavy green vertical stripes. This one has green stripes on a white background. Download if you like it.
Source V. Hartikainen
From a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a drawing in 'Line and form', Walter Crane, 1914.
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The rectangular tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
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A seamless pattern the unit cell for which can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
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I skipped number 3, because it wasn’t all that great. Sorry.
Source Dima Shiper
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
Looks a bit like concrete with subtle specks spread around the pattern.
Source Mladjan Antic
A seamless pattern drawn originally in Paint.net by distorting a slice of background pattern 116 and copying the resulting triangle numerous times.
Source Firkin
This is the third pattern called Dark Denim, but hey, we all love them!
Source Brandon Jacoby
Heavy depth and shadows here, but might work well on some mobile apps.
Source Damian Rivas
Prepared mostly as a raster in Paint.net and vectorised.
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
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From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
A topographic map like this has actually been requested a few times, so here you go!
Source Sam Feyaerts
This is indeed a bit strange, but here’s to the crazy ones!
Source Christopher Buecheler
A bit like smudged paint or some sort of steel, here is scribble light.
Source Tegan Male