From a drawing in 'At home', J. Sowerby, J. Crane and T. Frederick, 1881.
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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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Lovely pattern with splattered vintage speckles.
Source David Pomfret
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
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This one is rather fun and playful. The 2X could be used at 1X too!
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Not the Rebel alliance, but a dark textured pattern.
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This background pattern contains a seamless texture of bark. It's not very realistic, but I think it looks quite nice.
Source V. Hartikainen
As the original image 's page size is too large for its image size, I remixed it.
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A white version of the very popular linen pattern.
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Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 5 No Black
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Nothing like a clean set of bed sheets, huh?
Source Badhon Ebrahim
The file was named striped lens, but hey – Translucent Fibres works too.
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Prismatic Geometric Tessellation Pattern 2 No Background
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A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
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The tile can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i. Remixed from a drawing in 'Flowers of Song', Frederick Weatherly, 1895.
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This was formed by distorting an image of a background on Pixabay.
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Design drawn in Paint.net, vectorised using Vector Magic and finished in Inkscape.
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From a drawing in 'Cowdray: the history of a great English House', Julia Roundell, 1884.
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The original enhanced with one of Inkscapes's filters.
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A very slick dark rubber grip pattern, sort of like the grip on a camera.
Source Sinisha
A very dark asfalt pattern based off of a photo taken with my iPhone.
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A simple example on using clones. You can generate a nice base for a pattern fill quickly with it.
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