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. The tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
A smooth mid-tone gray, or low contrast if you will, linen pattern.
Source Jordan Pittman
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
A slightly more textured pattern, medium gray. A bit like a potato sack?
Source Bilal Ketab
This one could be the shirt of a golf player. Angled lines in different thicknesses.
Source Olivier Pineda
Sharp but soft triangles in light shades of gray.
Source Pixeden
8 by 8 pixels, and just what the title says.
Source pixilated
More tactile goodness. This time in the form of some rough cloth.
Source Bartosz Kaszubowski
A seamless pattern from a tile drawn in Paint.net and vectorised in Vector Magic
Source Firkin
Remixed from a raster on Pixabay that was uploaded by ArtsyBee.
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Inspired by a drawing in 'Poems', James Smith, 1881.
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You guessed it – looks a bit like cloth.
Source Peax Webdesign
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
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Derived from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by mdmelo.
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Prismatic Rounded Squares Grid 3 No Background
Source GDJ
From a drawing in 'Maidenhood; or, the Verge of the Stream', Laura Jewry, 1876.
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Dark and hard, just the way we like it. Embossed triangles makes a nice pattern.
Source Ivan Ginev
Here's a subtle marble-like background for use on websites.
Source V. Hartikainen
This is sort of fresh, but still feels a bit old school.
Source Martuchox
I love these crisp, tiny, super subtle patterns.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Adapted heavily from a JPG that was uploaded to Pixabay by Viscious-Speed.
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If you want png files of this u can download them here : viscious-speed.deviantart.com/gallery/27635117
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