From a drawing in 'Cowdray: the history of a great English House', Julia Roundell, 1884.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Navigations de Alouys de Cademoste.-La Navigation du Capitaine Pierre Sintre', Alvise da ca da Mosto, 1895.
Source Firkin
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
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Background Wall, Art Abstract, Block Well & CC0 texture.
Source Ractapopulous
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
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Bumps, highlight and shadows – all good things.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
Greyscale version of a pattern that came out of playing with the 'slinky' plug-in for Paint.net
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Tile available in Inkscape using shift-alt-i on the selected rectangle
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A bit like some carbon, or knitted netting if you will.
Source Anna Litvinuk
Nasty or not, it’s a nice pattern that tiles. Like they all do.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
From a drawing in 'Prose and Verse ', William Linton, 1836.
Source Firkin
A light brushed aluminum pattern for your pleasure.
Source Tim Ward
Background formed from the original with an emboss effect
Source GDJ
From a drawing in 'At home', J. Sowerby, J. Crane and T. Frederick, 1881.
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A seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i.
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Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background
Source GDJ
Coming in at 666x666px, this is an evil big pattern, but nice and soft at the same time.
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.
Source Firkin
Inspired by a pattern found in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
Source Firkin
All good things come in threes, so I give you the third in my little concrete wall series.
Source Atle Mo
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Utilising some flowers from Almeidah. To get the unit tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
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Remixed from a drawing in 'Line and form", Walter Crane, 1914.
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From a drawing in 'Worsborough; its historical associations and rural attractions', Joseph Wilkinson, 1879.
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Colorful Floral Background 3 No Black
Source GDJ
From drawing in 'Musings in Maoriland', Thomas Bracken, 1890.
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Remixed from a drawing in 'Maidenhood; or, the Verge of the Stream', Laura Jewry, 1876.
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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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