From a drawing in 'At home', J. Sowerby, J. Crane and T. Frederick, 1881.
Source Firkin
A floral background formed from numerous clones of flower 117.
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It looks very nice I think.
Source V. Hartikainen
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.
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Actually, there's no clouds in it, but I think it looks quite nice.
Source V. Hartikainen
Light honeycomb pattern made up of the classic hexagon shape.
Source Federica Pelzel
Bright gray tones with a hint of some metal surface.
Source Hendrik Lammers
White circles connecting on a light gray background.
Source Mark Collins
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
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A seamless pattern from a tile made from a jpg on Pixabay. To get the tile select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
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Orange-red pattern for tiled backgrounds.
Source V. Hartikainen
Remixed from a PNG that was uploaded to Pixabay by VictorianLady
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Seamless Dark Grunge Texture. Here's a new grunge texture for use as a background.
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Formed from a tile based on a drawing from 'Viaggi d'un artista nell'America Meridionale', Guido Boggiani, 1895.
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A seamless pattern from a tile drawn in Paint.net and vectorised in Vector Magic
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Background formed from the original with an emboss effect
Source GDJ
Sharp pixel pattern looking like some sort of fabric.
Source Dmitry
Actually remixed from a pattern on Pixabay. But then noticed a very similar one on Openclipart.org uploaded by btj51q2.
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Remixed from a drawing in 'Jezebel's Daughter', Wilkie Collins 1880
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A repeating gloomy background image. This one consists of a pattern of black chains layered on top of a dark textured background.
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From a drawing in 'Gately's World's Progress', Charles Beale, 1886.
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