From a drawing in 'At home', J. Sowerby, J. Crane and T. Frederick, 1881.
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
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Remixed from a drawing in 'Chambéry à la fin du XIVe siècle', Timoleon Chapperon, 1863.
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From a design found in 'History of the Virginia Company of London; with letters to and from the first Colony, never before printed', Edward Neill, 1869.
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From a drawing in 'Less Black than we're painted', James Payn, 1884.
Source Firkin
A seamless marble-like texture colored in light blue.
Source V. Hartikainen
Vector version of a JPG that was uploaded to Pixabay by theasad121
Source Firkin
ZeroCC tileable wood boards texture, photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Alternative colour scheme. Not a pattern for fabrics, but one produced from a jpg of a stack of fabric items that was posted on Pixabay. The tile that this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
No, not the band but the pattern. Simple squares in gray tones, of course.
Source Atle Mo
Looks a bit like concrete with subtle specks spread around the pattern.
Source Mladjan Antic
A slightly more textured pattern, medium gray. A bit like a potato sack?
Source Bilal Ketab
Used correctly, this could be nice. Used in a bad way, all hell will break loose.
Source Atle Mo
Some rectangles, a bit of dust and grunge, plus a hint of concrete.
Source Atle Mo
A simple bump filter made upon request at irc #inkscape at freenode. Made a screen capture of the making here: https://youtu.be/TGAWYKVLxQw
Source Lazur URH
I guess this is inspired by the city of Ravenna in Italy and its stone walls.
Source Sentel
Remixed from a drawing in 'Chambéry à la fin du XIVe siècle', Timoleon Chapperon, 1863.
Source Firkin
Not the most creative name, but it’s a good all-purpose light background.
Source Dmitry
From a drawing in 'Heroes of North African Discovery', Nancy Meugens, 1894.
Source Firkin
The classic 45-degree diagonal line pattern, done right.
Source Jorick van Hees
Seamless , tileable CC-0 texture. Created by my own, feel free to use wherever you want!
Source Linolafett
If you want png files of this u can download them here : viscious-speed.deviantart.com/gallery/27635117
Source Viscious-Speed
Remixed from a drawing in 'Prehistoric Man: researches into the origin of civilisation in the old and the new world', Daniel Wilson, 1876.
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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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