From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Just to prove my point, here is a slightly modified dark version.
Source Atle Mo
From a drawing in 'Chambéry à la fin du XIVe siècle', Timoleon Chapperon, 1863.
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Background formed from the original with an emboss effect.
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Sharp diamond pattern. A small 24x18px tile.
Source Tom Neal
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Traced from a drawing in 'Household Stories from the Collection of the Brothers Grimm', Wilhelm Carl Grimm , 1882.
Source Firkin
Sharp pixel pattern, just like the good old days.
Source Paridhi
A repeating gloomy background image. This one consists of a pattern of black chains layered on top of a dark textured background.
Source V. Hartikainen
A seamless pattern with wide vertical stripes colored in pale yellow.
Source V. Hartikainen
Light and tiny, just the way you like it.
Source Rohit Arun Rao
Remixed from a drawing in 'Some account of the Worshipful Company of Ironmongers', John Nicholl, 1866.
Source Firkin
Lovely pattern with some good-looking non-random noise lines.
Source Zucx
Nice and simple crossed lines in dark gray tones.
Source Stefan Aleksić
Three shades of gray makes this pattern look like a small carbon fiber surface. Great readability even for small fonts.
Source Atle Mo
The image depicts meshed silhouettes of various things.The original image is an OCAL clipart called "Enter FOSSASIA 2016 #IoT T-shirt Design Contest" uploaded by "openclipart".Thanks.
Source Yamachem
Have you wondered about how it feels to be buried alive? Here is the pattern for it.
Source Hendrik Lammers
Prismatic Geometric Pattern Variation 2 With Background
Source GDJ
Prepared mostly as a raster in Paint.net and vectorised.
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
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