Derived from a drawing in 'The Murmur of the Shells', Samuel Cowen, 1879.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'At home', J. Sowerby, J. Crane and T. Frederick, 1881.
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Derived from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by starchim01
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Design drawn in Paint.net, vectorised using Vector Magic and finished in Inkscape.
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A simple but elegant classic. Every collection needs one of these.
Source Christopher Burton
Turn your site into a dragon with this great scale pattern.
Source Alex Parker
It looks like a polished stone surface to me. Download it for free, as always.
Source V. Hartikainen
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones 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.
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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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Different from the original in being a simple tile stored as a pattern definition, rather than numerous repeated objects. Hence easy and quick to give this pattern to objects of different shapes. To get the tile in Inkscape, select the rectangle 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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From a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
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No idea what Nistri means, but it’s a crisp little pattern nonetheless.
Source Markus Reiter
Zero CC tileable ground cracked, crackled, texture, made by me.
Source Sojan Janso
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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Remixed from a drawing in 'Some account of the Worshipful Company of Ironmongers', John Nicholl, 1866.
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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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An alternative colour scheme for the original background.
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A seamless pattern created from a square tile. To get the tile, select the pattern in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
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This is a grid, only it’s noisy. You know. Reminds you of those printed grids you draw on.
Source Vectorpile
Zero CC Mossy stone tileable texture, photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
A bit like smudged paint or some sort of steel, here is scribble light.
Source Tegan Male