From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
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More in the paper realm, this time with fibers.
Source Jorge Fuentes
Design drawn in Paint.net, vectorised using Vector Magic and finished in Inkscape.
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Lovely light gray floral motif with some subtle shades.
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A simple circle. That’s all it takes. This one is even transparent, for those who like that.
Source Saqib
People seem to enjoy dark patterns, so here is one with some circles.
Source Atle Mo
This was formed by distorting an image of a background on Pixabay.
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A free seamless background texture of "timber wall" (colored in dark brown).
Source V. Hartikainen
A seamless pattern with a unit cell drawn as a bitmap in Paint.net and vectorized in Vector Magic.
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A nice looking light gray background pattern with diagonal stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
Seamless , tileable CC-0 texture. Created by my own, feel free to use wherever you want!
Source Linolafett
Colour version of the original pattern.
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Made by distorting a simple pattern using the 'sin waves' plugin for Paint.net and vectorising in Vector Magic
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From a drawing in 'At home', J. Sowerby, J. Crane and T. Frederick, 1881.
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CC0 and a seamless pattern from a tile drawn in Paint.net .
Source SliverKnight
The Grid. A digital frontier. I tried to picture clusters of information as they traveled through the computer.
Source Haris Šumić
The tile for this is based on a repeating unit close to a design on Pixabay. It can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.
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This was formed by distorting an image of a background on Pixabay.
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Derived from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by Kaz
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Inspired by a pattern found in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
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This background pattern contains a seamless texture of bark. It's not very realistic, but I think it looks quite nice.
Source V. Hartikainen
A seamless pattern based on a square tile that can be retrieved in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift-alt-i.
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The perfect pattern for all your blogs about type, or type-related matters.
Source Atle Mo
Derived from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by Darkmoon1968
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Imagine you zoomed in 1000X on some fabric. But then it turned out to be a skeleton!
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