From a drawing in 'Resa i Afrika, genom Angola, Ovampo och Damaraland', P. Moller, 1899.
Source Firkin
Remixed from an image on Pixabay uploaded by Prawny
Source Firkin
A background formed from an image of an old tile on the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art website. To get the base tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a design seen on Pixabay. The basic tile can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
A textured blue background pattern with vertical stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
A background tile for web with abstract repeating texture of dark "stone wall".
Source V. Hartikainen
A comeback for you: the popular Escheresque, now in black.
Source Patten
Small gradient crosses inside 45-degree boxes, or bigger crosses if you will.
Source Wassim
Prismatic Abstract Background Design No Black
Source GDJ
A dark gray, sandy pattern with small light dots, and some angled strokes.
Source Atle Mo
A light gray fabric pattern with faded vertical stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
Seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
More Japanese-inspired patterns, Gold Scales this time.
Source Josh Green
A very dark spotted twinkle pattern for your twinkle needs.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
A seamless pattern based on a square tile that can be retrieved in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Seamless , tileable CC-0 texture. Created by my own, feel free to use wherever you want!
Source Linolafett
Dare I call this a «flat pattern»? Probably not.
Source Dax Kieran
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
Source Firkin
ZeroCC tileabel stone granite texture, edited from pixabay. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Utilising some flowers from Almeidah. To get the unit tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
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The tile this is formed from can be retrieved in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i
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