From a drawing in 'Resa i Afrika, genom Angola, Ovampo och Damaraland', P. Moller, 1899.
Source Firkin
A car pattern?! Can it be subtle? I say yes!
Source Radosław Rzepecki
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
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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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Horizontal and vertical lines on a light gray background.
Source Adam Anlauf
Alternative colour scheme. 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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Tweed is back in style – you heard it here first. Also, the @2X version here is great!
Source Simon Leo
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
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The green fibers pattern will work very well in grayscale as well.
Source Matteo Di Capua
One of the few full-color patterns here, but this one was just too good to pass up.
Source Alexey Usoltsev
Simple combination of stripy squares with their negatively coloured counterparts
Source Firkin
Derived from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by TheDigitalArtist
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Adapted heavily from a JPG that was uploaded to Pixabay by Viscious-Speed.
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From a drawing in 'A Guide to the Guildhall of the City of London', John Baddeley, 1898.
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I love cream! 50x50px and lovely in all the good ways.
Source Thomas Myrman
From a drawing in 'The Quiver of Love', Walter Crane, 1876
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Vertical lines with a bumpy, yet crisp, feel to it.
Source Raasa
Inspired by a 1930s wallpaper pattern I saw on TV.
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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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A pattern derived from repeating unit cells each derived from part of a fractal rendering in paint.net.
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