From drawing in 'Musings in Maoriland', Thomas Bracken, 1890.
Source Firkin
The classic 45-degree diagonal line pattern, done right.
Source Jorick van Hees
A bit like some carbon, or knitted netting if you will.
Source Anna Litvinuk
Produced using the clouds, flames and glass blocks plug-ins in Paint.net and the resulting .PNG vectorised with Vector Magic.
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More bright luxury. This is a bit larger than fancy deboss, and with a bit more noise.
Source Viszt Péter
The green fibers pattern will work very well in grayscale as well.
Source Matteo Di Capua
The tile this is based on can be retrieved by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
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Remixed from a PNG that was uploaded to Pixabay by VictorianLady
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Remix from a drawing in 'Ostatnie chwile powstania styczniowego', Zygmunt Sulima, 1887.
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The tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
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A hint of orange color, and some crossed and embossed lines.
Source Adam Anlauf
Floral patterns will never go out of style, so enjoy this one.
Source Lasma
Colorful Floral Background 3 No Black
Source GDJ
No relation to the band, but damn it’s subtle!
Source Thomas Myrman
A white version of the very popular linen pattern.
Source Ant Ekşiler
All good things come in threes, so I give you the third in my little concrete wall series.
Source Atle Mo
Remixed from a drawing in 'Chambéry à la fin du XIVe siècle', Timoleon Chapperon, 1863.
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A seamless pattern formed from a tile made from ornament 22. To get the tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
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Inspired by a design found in 'Konstantinápolyi emlékeim', Miklos Chriszto, 1893.
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A large pattern with funky shapes and form. An original. Sort of origami-ish.
Source Luuk van Baars
Just the symbols of the signs of the zodiac distributed in a chequer board-like pattern
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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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A repeating background with wood/straw like texture.
Source V. Hartikainen
Bit of a strange name on this one, but still nice. Tiny gray square things.
Source Carlos Valdez
Inspired by a drawing in 'Kulturgeschichte', Freidrich Hellwald, 1896.
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The edges of all the red objects line up either vertically or horizontally, but it doesn't appear so. Made from a square tile that can be got by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
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Don’t look at this one too long if you’re high on something.
Source Luuk van Baars