From a drawing in 'At home', J. Sowerby, J. Crane and T. Frederick, 1881.
Source Firkin
An abstract texture of water. It's not perfect, but will do. You may download if you like it.
Source V. Hartikainen
Prismatic Geometric Pattern Background No Black
Source GDJ
Submitted as a black pattern, I made it light and a few steps more subtle.
Source Andy
A pale olive green background with a seamless texture.
Source V. Hartikainen
From a drawing in 'At home', J. Sowerby, J. Crane and T. Frederick, 1881.
Source Firkin
The classic notebook paper with horizontal stripes.
Source Are Sundnes
This is lovely, just the right amount of subtle noise, lines and textures.
Source Richard Tabor
If you like it a bit trippy, this wave pattern might be for you.
Source Ian Soper
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
A new one called white wall, not by me this time.
Source Yuji Honzawa
From a drawing in 'Artists and Arabs', Henry Blackburn, 1868
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i
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More bright luxury. This is a bit larger than fancy deboss, and with a bit more noise.
Source Viszt Péter
Seamless , tileable CC-0 texture. Created by my own, feel free to use wherever you want!
Source Linolafett
The classic 45-degree diagonal line pattern, done right.
Source Jorick van Hees
To get the tile this is formed from select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
The base gradient edited so now more details are rendered.
Source Lazur URH
From a drawing in 'Resa i Afrika, genom Angola, Ovampo och Damaraland', P. Moller, 1899.
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A pattern formed from a photograph of a 16th century ceramic tile.
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A seamless chequerboard pattern formed from a tile that can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i. Alternative colour scheme.
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From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
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