From a drawing in 'At home', J. Sowerby, J. Crane and T. Frederick, 1881.
Source Firkin
Formed by heavily distorting part of a an image of a fish uploaded to Pixabay by GLady
Source Firkin
Abstract Ellipses Background Grayscale
Source GDJ
The image depicts a seamless pattern made using a bird's face.
Source Yamachem
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
From a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Three shades of gray makes this pattern look like a small carbon fiber surface. Great readability even for small fonts.
Source Atle Mo
This is so subtle you need to bring your magnifier!
Source Carlos Valdez
A brown seamless wood texture in a form of stripe pattern. The result has turned out pretty well, in my opinion.
Source V. Hartikainen
A light brushed aluminum pattern for your pleasure.
Source Tim Ward
Luxury pattern, looking like it came right out of Paris.
Source Daniel Beaton
Derived from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by Kaz
Source Firkin
It’s like Shine Dotted’s sister, only rotated 45 degrees.
Source mediumidee
Uses spirals from Pixabay. To get the basic tile select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i
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By popular request, an outline version of the pentagon pattern.
Source Atle Mo
Remixed from a drawing in 'Works. Popular edition', John Ruskin, 1886.
Source Firkin
A re-make of the Gradient Squares pattern.
Source Dimitar Karaytchev
Same as the black version, but now in shades of gray. Very subtle and fine grained.
Source Atle Mo
I love cream! 50x50px and lovely in all the good ways.
Source Thomas Myrman
Vector version of a png that was uploaded to Pixabay by pencilparker
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern from a tile made from a jpg on Pixabay. To get the tile select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
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This is a grid, only it’s noisy. You know. Reminds you of those printed grids you draw on.
Source Vectorpile
Formed from a tile based on a drawing from 'Viaggi d'un artista nell'America Meridionale', Guido Boggiani, 1895.
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is formed from select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
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