Part of Bayeux Tapestry 1 #2452
Noise CC 0From a drawing in 'Les Chroniqueurs de l'Histoire de France depuis les origines jusqu'au XVIe siècle', Henriette Witt, 1884.
Source Firkin
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Light CC BY-SA 3.0I’m not going to lie – if you submit something with the words Norwegian and Rose in it, it’s likely I’ll publish it.
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Grid CC BY-SA 3.0Submitted as a black pattern, I made it light and a few steps more subtle.
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Noise CC 0Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 3 No Black
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Diagonal Striped Brick@2X #680
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Dark CC 0Heavily remixed from a drawing in 'Barbara Leybourne; a story of eighty years ago', Sarah Hamer, 1889.
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White Wave #681
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Background pattern 323 (colour 3) #1810
Yellow CC 0Adapted heavily from a JPG that was uploaded to Pixabay by Viscious-Speed.
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White carbon #11
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Prismatic Geometric Tessellation Pattern 3 No Background@2X #556
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Source Firkin
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Source Firkin
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Diagonales Decalées@2X #1019
Light CC BY-SA 3.0Sounds French. Some 3D square diagonals, that’s all you need to know.
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Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
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Pink CC 0Remixed from an image on Pixabay uploaded by Prawny
Source Firkin