From a drawing in 'Handbook of the excursions proposed to be made by the Lincoln Diocesan Architectural Society, on the 27th and 28th of May, 1857', Edward Trollope, 1857.
Source Firkin
Seamless , tileable CC-0 texture. Created by my own, feel free to use wherever you want!
Source Linolafett
This was formed by distorting an image of a background on Pixabay.
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Just to prove my point, here is a slightly modified dark version.
Source Atle Mo
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
A seamless background pattern with a texture of wood planks. This wood background pattern has vertically arranged planks. You may try to rotate it 90°, to see how it will look like when the wood planks are arranged horizontally.
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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A seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i.
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Nothing like a clean set of bed sheets, huh?
Source Badhon Ebrahim
Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 3
Source GDJ
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
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A version without colours blended together to give a different look.
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From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
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From a drawing in 'Prose and Verse ', William Linton, 1836.
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Derived from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by mdmelo.
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Recreated from a pattern found in 'Az Osztrák-Magyar Monarchia irásban és képben', 1882. To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
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The original has been presented as black on transparent and stored in the pattern definitions. To retrieve the unit tile select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i
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A background formed from an image of an old tile on the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art website. To get the base tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
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Black version of a pattern that came out of playing with the 'light rays' plug-in for Paint.net
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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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Sort of like the Photoshop transparent background, but better!
Source Alex Parker
Remixed from a drawing in 'A Child of the Age', Francis Adams, 1894.
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The image depicts a seamless pattern of pine tree leaves.
Source Yamachem