From a drawing in 'Gately's World's Progress', Charles Beale, 1886.
Source Firkin
Paper pattern with small dust particles and 45-degree strokes.
Source Atle Mo
Lovely pattern with some good-looking non-random noise lines.
Source Zucx
Prismatic Snowflakes Pattern No Background
Source GDJ
As simple and subtle as it gets. But sometimes that’s just what you want.
Source Designova
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern with a unit cell drawn as a bitmap in Paint.net and vectorized in Vector Magic.
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The tile this is based on can be retrieved by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
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To get the repeating unit, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i
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A seamless pattern from a tile drawn in Paint.net and vectorised in Vector Magic
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From a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
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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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Detailed but still subtle and quite original. Lovely gray shades.
Source Kim Ruddock
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
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From a drawing in 'Les Chroniqueurs de l'Histoire de France depuis les origines jusqu'au XVIe siècle', Henriette Witt, 1884.
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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 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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No, not the band but the pattern. Simple squares in gray tones, of course.
Source Atle Mo
Nice and simple crossed lines in dark gray tones.
Source Stefan Aleksić
Scanned some rice paper and tiled it up for you. Enjoy.
Source Atle Mo
I’m guessing this is related to the Sony Vaio? It’s a nice pattern no matter where it’s from.
Source Zigzain