From a drawing in 'Real Sailor-Songs', John Ashton, 1891.
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern created from a square tile. To get the tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
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From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
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Non-seamless pattern drawn in Paint.net and vectorised in Vector Magic.
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Could remind you a bit of those squares in Super Mario Bros, yeh?
Source Jeff Wall
Formed by distorting a JPG from PublicDomainPictures
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Zero CC tileable ground cracked, crackled, texture, made by me.
Source Sojan Janso
The classic notebook paper with horizontal stripes.
Source Are Sundnes
After 1 comes 2, same but different. You get the idea.
Source Hendrik Lammers
Can’t believe we don’t have this in the collection already! Slick woven pattern with crisp details.
Source Max Rudberg
This is so subtle you need to bring your magnifier!
Source Carlos Valdez
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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As far as fabric patterns goes, this is quite crisp.
Source Heliodor Jalba
Semi-light fabric pattern made out of random pixels in shades of gray.
Source Atle Mo
Made by distorting a simple pattern using the 'sin waves' plugin for Paint.net and vectorising in Vector Magic
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Never out of fashion and so much hotter than the 45º everyone knows, here is a sweet 60º line pattern.
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From a drawing in 'Artists and Arabs', Henry Blackburn, 1868.
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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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This background pattern contains a texture of yellow wood planks. I think it looks quite original.
Source V. Hartikainen
Remixed from a design seen on Pixabay. The basic tile can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
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Floral patterns might not be the hottest thing right now, but you never know when you need it!
Source Lauren
Prismatic Abstract Geometric Background 3
Source GDJ
A comeback for you: the popular Escheresque, now in black.
Source Patten