From a drawing in 'Cowdray: the history of a great English House', Julia Roundell, 1884.
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern with a unit cell drawn as a bitmap in Paint.net and vectorized in Vector Magic.
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Remixed from a drawing in 'Chambéry à la fin du XIVe siècle', Timoleon Chapperon, 1863.
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A huge one at 800x600px. Made from a photo I took going home after work.
Source Atle Mo
It was called Navy Blue, but I made it dark. You know, the way I like it.
Source Ethan Hamilton
Zero CC tileable bark texture, photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
This is a seamless pattern of regular hexagon which has a honeycomb structure.
Source Yamachem
From a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
Source Firkin
The tile this fill pattern is based on can be had by using shift+alt+i on the rectangle.
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CC0 remixed from a drawing. Walter Crane, 1914, Firkin.
Source SliverKnight
As far as fabric patterns goes, this is quite crisp.
Source Heliodor Jalba
Just the symbols of the signs of the zodiac distributed in a chequer board-like pattern
Source Firkin
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.
Source Firkin
The classic notebook paper with horizontal stripes.
Source Are Sundnes
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
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Prismatic Curved Diamond Pattern 4 No Background
Source GDJ
From a drawing in 'Les Chroniqueurs de l'Histoire de France depuis les origines jusqu'au XVIe siècle', Henriette Witt, 1884.
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Fabric-ish patterns are close to my heart. French Stucco to the rescue.
Source Christopher Buecheler
The file was named striped lens, but hey – Translucent Fibres works too.
Source Angelica
Free tiled background with colorful stripes and white splatter.
Source V. Hartikainen
From a drawing in 'Maidenhood; or, the Verge of the Stream', Laura Jewry, 1876.
Source Firkin
The rectangular tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
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