From a drawing in 'Real Sailor-Songs', John Ashton, 1891.
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Oh yes, it happened! A pattern in full color.
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Colour version of a pattern that came out of playing with the 'light rays' plug-in for Paint.net
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Remixed from a PNG that was uploaded to Pixabay by gingertea
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From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
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A criss-cross pattern similar to one I saw mown into a sports field.
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A pattern derived from repeating unit cells each derived from part of a fractal rendering in paint.net.
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From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
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A background formed from an image of an old tile on the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art website. To get the base tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
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Remixed from a drawing in 'The March of Loyalty', Letitia MacClintock, 1884.
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Seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.
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A beautiful dark padded pattern, like an old classic sofa.
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Seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
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A repeating graphic with ancient pattern. I came up with this name/title at last minute, so you may find that there is very little of ancientness in this pattern after all.
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From a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
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Seamless pattern formed from a square tile that can be retrieved in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift-alt-i.
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A seamless web texture of "green stone".
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Never out of fashion and so much hotter than the 45º everyone knows, here is a sweet 60º line pattern.
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ZeroCC tileable wood boards texture, photographed and made by me. CC0
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A pale orange background pattern with glossy groove stripes.
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