From a drawing in 'Prose and Verse ', William Linton, 1836.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
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Seamless pattern the tile for which can be had by using shift-alt-I on the selected rectangle in Inkscape.
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From a drawing in 'Line and form', Walter Crane, 1914.
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Dark pattern with some nice diagonal stitched lines crossing over.
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From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
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Bright Multicolored Floral Background by Karen Arnold from PDP.
Source GDJ
A free seamless background image with a texture of dark red "canvas". It should look very nice on web sites.
Source V. Hartikainen
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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Not so subtle. These tileable wood patterns are very useful.
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From a drawing in 'The Quiver of Love', Walter Crane, 1876
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From a drawing in 'Hundert Jahre in Wort und Bild', S. Stefan, 1899.
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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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Prismatic Abstract Geometric Background 2 No Black
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A slightly grainy paper pattern with small horizontal and vertical strokes.
Source Atle Mo
Remixed from a design seen on Pixabay. The basic tile can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
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Not sure if this is related to the Nami you get in Google image search, but hey, it’s nice!
Source Dertig Media
If you don’t like cream and pixels, you’re in the wrong place.
Source Mizanur Rahman
A seamless pattern drawn originally in Paint.net by distorting a slice of background pattern 116 and copying the resulting triangle numerous times.
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Derived from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by darkmoon1968
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Here's a tile-able wood background image for use in web design.
Source V. Hartikainen
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
If you don’t like cream and pixels, you’re in the wrong place.
Source Mizanur Rahman