From a drawing in 'Bond Slaves. The story of a struggle.', Isabella Varley, 1893.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Cowdray: the history of a great English House', Julia Roundell, 1884.
Source Firkin
A re-make of the Gradient Squares pattern.
Source Dimitar Karaytchev
Might not be super subtle, but quite original in its form.
Source Alex Smith
A bit strange this one, but nice at the same time.
Source Diogo Silva
From a drawing in 'Line and form', Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
Geometric triangles seem to be quite hot these days.
Source Pixeden
Design drawn in Paint.net, vectorised using Vector Magic and finished in Inkscape.
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
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Remixed from a PNG that was uploaded to Pixabay by k_jprather
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Element of beach pattern with background.
Source Rones
One more brick pattern. A bit more depth to this one.
Source Benjamin Ward
Inspired by a 1930s wallpaper pattern I saw on TV.
Source Firkin
Textured Red Brown Plastic, Free Background Pattern. Although there's already enough plastic in our lives, let's bring it to the web too.)
Source V. Hartikainen
Inspired by a drawing in 'Kulturgeschichte', Freidrich Hellwald, 1896.
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A seamless pattern formed from a square tile. To get the tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
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I’m not going to use the word Retina for all the new patterns, but it just felt right for this one. Huge wood pattern for ya’ll.
Source Atle Mo
Little x’es, noise and all the stuff you like. Dark like a Monday, with a hint of blue.
Source Tom McArdle
This is sort of fresh, but still feels a bit old school.
Source Martuchox
Never out of fashion and so much hotter than the 45º everyone knows, here is a sweet 60º line pattern.
Source Atle Mo
Alternative colour scheme. Not a pattern for fabrics, but one produced from a jpg of a stack of fabric items that was posted on Pixabay. The tile that this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
The base gradient edited so now more details are rendered.
Source Lazur URH