Remixed from a drawing in 'Jezebel's Daughter', Wilkie Collins 1880
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Here's a brown background pattern with subtle stripes. I hope you'll like the color. If not, feel free to change it using an image editor, if you know how of course. Personally, I'm using GIMP to create these backgrounds.
Source V. Hartikainen
Remixed from a drawing in 'Hungary. A guide book. By several authors', 1890.
Source Firkin
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Black & white version of a pattern that came out of playing with the 'light rays' plug-in for Paint.net
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The unit cell for this seamless pattern can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i.
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From a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
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From a drawing in 'Maidenhood; or, the Verge of the Stream', Laura Jewry, 1876.
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Just like your old suit, all striped and smooth.
Source Alex Berkowitz
A seamless pattern that includes the original tile (go to Objects / Pattern / Pattern To Objects in Inkscape's menu to extract it).
Source GDJ
Derived from a drawing in 'The Murmur of the Shells', Samuel Cowen, 1879.
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Medium gray pattern with small strokes to give a weave effect.
Source Catherine
Prismatic Polka Dots Mark II 2 No Background
Source GDJ
Wild Oliva or Oliva Wilde? Darker than the others, sort of a medium dark pattern.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
Here's a new gray "fabric" pattern. Use it as backgrounds for websites or for other purposes.
Source V. Hartikainen
A free grid paper background pattern for using on web sites.
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From a design found in 'History of the Virginia Company of London; with letters to and from the first Colony, never before printed', Edward Neill, 1869.
Source Firkin
As simple and subtle as it gets. But sometimes that’s just what you want.
Source Designova
To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
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Derived from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by mdmelo.
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Floral patterns might not be the hottest thing right now, but you never know when you need it!
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This one looks like a cork panel. Feel free to use it as a tiled background on your blog or website.
Source V. Hartikainen
Greyscale version of a pattern that came out of playing with the 'light rays' plug-in for Paint.net
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