From a drawing in 'Cowdray: the history of a great English House', Julia Roundell, 1884.
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Seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be extracted by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.
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Formed from a tile based on a drawing from 'Viaggi d'un artista nell'America Meridionale', Guido Boggiani, 1895.
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Derived from a drawing in 'Historiske Afhandlinger', Adolf Jorgensen, 1898.
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To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
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Colour version that is close to the original drawing uploaded to Pixabay by pencilparker.
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Just what the name says, paper fibers. Always good to have.
Source Heliodor jalba
It’s an egg, in the form of a pattern. This really is 2012.
Source Paul Phönixweiß
Formed from a tile based on a drawing from 'Viaggi d'un artista nell'America Meridionale', Guido Boggiani, 1895.
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A seamless pattern formed from background pattern 102
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Lovely pattern with splattered vintage speckles.
Source David Pomfret
The rectangular tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
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A seamless chequerboard pattern formed from a tile that can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i. Alternative colour scheme.
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Colour version of the original pattern.
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A seamless pattern based on a tile that can be achieved by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
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Remixed from a design seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857. The tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
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Based on several public domain drawings on Wikimedia Commons. This was formed from a rectangular tile. The tile can be accessed in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift-alt-i.
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To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
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A seamless pattern recreated from an image on Pixabay. It is reminiscent of parquet flooring and is formed from a square tile, which can be recovered in Inkscape by selecting the ungrouped rectangle and using shift-alt-I together.
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From a drawing in 'At home', J. Sowerby, J. Crane and T. Frederick, 1881.
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Oh yes, it happened! A pattern in full color.
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Remixed from a vector adapted from a jpg on Pixabay. The tile this is constructed from can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.
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A seamless pattern formed from background pattern 102
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A repeating background with seamless texture of stone. There haven't been any stone-like backgrounds for a while, so I have decided to create one more. The rest can be found in the appropriate category.
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Zero CC tileable bark texture, photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
You can never get enough of these tiny pixel patterns with sharp lines.
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A seamless background drawn in Paint.net and vectorised with Vector Magic. The starting point was a photograph of drinking straws from Pixabay.
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