From a drawing in 'An Old Maid's Love. A Dutch tale told in English', Maarten Maartens, 1891.
Source Firkin
From a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
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A pattern drawn in Paint.net and vectorized in Inkscape.
Source Firkin
The unit cell for this seamless pattern can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i.
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Here's a dark background pattern that contains a steel grid pattern as a texture. Use it as a website background or for other purposes. It's free!
Source V. Hartikainen
This white background pattern has a seamless grunge style texture. Here's a white grunge style background pattern. Use it as a tiled background image on web sites or for other purposes.
Source V. Hartikainen
Made by distorting a simple pattern using the 'sin waves' plugin for Paint.net and vectorising in Vector Magic
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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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Dark, crisp and subtle. Tiny black lines on top of some noise.
Source Wilmotte Bastien
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
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From a drawing in 'La Principauté de Liège et les Pays-Bas au XVIe siècle', Société des Bibliophiles Liégeois ,1887.
Source Firkin
This was submitted in a beige color, hence the name. Now it’s a gray paper pattern.
Source Konstantin Ivanov
A seamless pattern formed from a square tile based on a jpg on Pixabay. The tile can be retrieved by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-I.
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A background pattern inspired by designs seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857.
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The classic subtle pattern. Sort of wall/brick looking. Or moon-looking?
Source Joel Klein
Classic vertical lines, in all its subtlety.
Source Cody L
A slightly grainy paper pattern with small horizontal and vertical strokes.
Source Atle Mo
From a drawing in 'Hubert Montreuil, or the Huguenot and the Dragoon', Francisca Ouvry, 1873.
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Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Imagine you zoomed in 1000X on some fabric. But then it turned out to be a skeleton!
Source Angelica
Paper pattern with small dust particles and 45-degree strokes.
Source Atle Mo
A light gray wall or floor (you decide) of concrete.
Source Atle Mo
Recreated from a pattern found in 'Az Osztrák-Magyar Monarchia irásban és képben', 1882. To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
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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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