From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Did anyone say The Hoff? This pattern is in no way related to Baywatch.
Source Josh Green
Colour version of the original pattern inspired by the front cover of 'Old and New Paris', Henry Edwards, 1894.
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
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 slightly grainy paper pattern with small horizontal and vertical strokes.
Source Atle Mo
Remixed from a design found in 'History of the Virginia Company of London; with letters to and from the first Colony, never before printed', Edward Neill, 1869.
Source Firkin
Beautiful dark noise pattern with some dust and grunge.
Source Vincent Klaiber
A background pattern inspired by designs seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Line and form', Walter Crane, 1914.
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A seamlessly tileable pink background texture.
Source V. Hartikainen
Zero CC tileable cork floor, photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
A seamless web texture of "green stone".
Source V. Hartikainen
Sometimes simple really is what you need, and this could fit you well.
Source Factorio.us Collective
This is sort of fresh, but still feels a bit old school.
Source Martuchox
Embossed lines and squares with subtle highlights.
Source Alex Parker
A simple example on using clones. You can generate a nice base for a pattern fill quickly with it.
Source Lazur URH
Alternative colour scheme for the original floral pattern.
Source Firkin
Medium gray fabric pattern with 45-degree lines going across.
Source Atle Mo
Light gray paper pattern with small traces of fiber and some dust.
Source Atle Mo
Seamless pattern the tile for which can be had by using shift-alt-I on the selected rectangle in Inkscape.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Geometric Tessellation Pattern 3 No Background
Source GDJ
Design drawn in Paint.net, vectorised using Vector Magic and finished in Inkscape.
Source Firkin
Seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be extracted by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern the starting point for which was a 'rainbow twist' texture in Paint.net.
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Black version of a pattern that came out of playing with the 'light rays' plug-in for Paint.net
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A seamless pattern formed from cross 4. To get the original tile select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
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