From a drawing in 'At home', J. Sowerby, J. Crane and T. Frederick, 1881.
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From a drawing in 'Friend or Fortune? The story of a strange year', Robert Overton, 1897.
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Tiny little flowers growing on your screen. Nice, huh?
Source Themes Tube
Just what the name says, paper fibers. Always good to have.
Source Heliodor jalba
White little knobs, coming in at 10x10px. Sweet!
Source Amos
A large pattern with funky shapes and form. An original. Sort of origami-ish.
Source Luuk van Baars
Background pattern originally a PNG drawn in Paint.net
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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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To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
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Design drawn in Paint.net, vectorised using Vector Magic and finished in Inkscape.
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Inspired by a 1930s wallpaper pattern I saw on TV.
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A seamless background drawn in Paint.net and vectorised with Vector Magic. The starting point was a photograph of drinking straws from Pixabay.
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Prismatic Geometric Pattern Background 2 No Black
Source GDJ
A background pattern inspired by designs seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857.
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To get the repeating unit, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i
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Used the 6th circle pattern designed by Viscious-Speed to create a print that can be used for card making or scrapbooking. Save as a PDF file for the best printing option.
Source Lovinglf
Paper pattern with small dust particles and 45-degree strokes.
Source Atle Mo
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
Luxurious looking pattern (for a T-shirt maybe?) with a hint of green.
Source Simon Meek
I’m not going to use the word Retina for all the new patterns, but it just felt right for this one. Huge wood pattern for ya’ll.
Source Atle Mo
First pattern tailor-made for Retina, with many more to come. All the old ones are upscaled, in case you want to re-download.
Source Atle Mo
This one looks like a cork panel. Feel free to use it as a tiled background on your blog or website.
Source V. Hartikainen
This light yellow background pattern consists of an irregular pattern of spots. Here's a light background pattern with yellowish tint.
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Formed by distorting the inside front cover of 'Diversæ insectarum volatilium : icones ad vivum accuratissmè depictæ per celeberrimum pictorem', Jacob Hoefnagel, 1630.
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