From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
A light background pattern with diagonal stripes. Here's a simple light striped background for you.
Source V. Hartikainen
A background tile of dark textile. Made this a long time ago and just now decided to publish it.
Source V. Hartikainen
The square tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
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From a drawing in 'Les Chroniqueurs de l'Histoire de France depuis les origines jusqu'au XVIe siècle', Henriette Witt, 1884.
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A bit simplified version. Although it could be edited out to be simpler. Anyway, this time the tiling is converted to a pattern fill -which is using clipping for the tile's edges.
Source Lazur URH
Background Wall, Art Abstract, Block Well & CC0 texture.
Source Ractapopulous
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
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ZeroCC tileable beechwood wood texture, generated in Neo Texture Edit by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Design drawn in Paint.net, vectorised using Vector Magic and finished in Inkscape.
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To get the tile this is made up from select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
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The classic notebook paper with horizontal stripes.
Source Are Sundnes
Made by distorting a simple pattern using the 'sin waves' plugin for Paint.net and vectorising in Vector Magic
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8 by 8 pixels, and just what the title says.
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To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
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Derived from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by Kaz
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I know there is one here already, but this is sexy!
Source Gjermund Gustavsen
A monochrome pattern from a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscaope and using shift+alt+i
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Sort of like the Photoshop transparent background, but better!
Source Alex Parker