From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
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Remixed from a drawing in 'Chambéry à la fin du XIVe siècle', Timoleon Chapperon, 1863.
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A simple circle. That’s all it takes. This one is even transparent, for those who like that.
Source Saqib
A bit strange this one, but nice at the same time.
Source Diogo Silva
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.
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Design drawn in Paint.net, vectorised using Vector Magic and finished in Inkscape.
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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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More in the paper realm, this time with fibers.
Source Jorge Fuentes
Derived from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by Kaz
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Some rectangles, a bit of dust and grunge, plus a hint of concrete.
Source Atle Mo
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
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Utilising some flowers from Almeidah. To get the unit tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
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An emulated “transparent” background pattern, like that of all kinds of computer graphics software.
Source AdamStanislav
A seamless pattern formed from a square tile. The tile can be retrieved by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-I.
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Bigger is better, right? So here you have some large carbon fiber.
Source Factorio.us Collective
Prismatic Abstract Background Design
Source GDJ
Remixed from a drawing in 'The March of Loyalty', Letitia MacClintock, 1884.
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Here's a seamless brown cork board background texture. Feel free to download or reshare if you like.
Source V. Hartikainen
Prismatic Geometric Pattern Background 2
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This is a semi-dark pattern, sort of linen-y.
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I love these crisp, tiny, super subtle patterns.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
Because I love dark patterns, here is Brushed Alum in a dark coating.
Source Tim Ward
Prismatic Abstract Background Design No Black
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Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Seamless , tileable CC-0 texture. Created by my own, feel free to use wherever you want!
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From a drawing in 'Navigations de Alouys de Cademoste.-La Navigation du Capitaine Pierre Sintre', Alvise da ca da Mosto, 1895.
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In the spirit of WWDC 2011, here is a dark iOS inspired linen pattern.
Source Atle Mo