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
Remixed from a drawing in 'The Canadian horticulturist', 1892
Source Firkin
A seamless background drawn in Paint.net and vectorised with Vector Magic. The starting point was a photograph of drinking straws from Pixabay.
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A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
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A seamless pattern formed from a square tile. The tile can be retrieved by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.
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An interesting dark spotted pattern at an angle.
Source Hendrik Lammers
From a drawing in 'Les Chroniqueurs de l'Histoire de France depuis les origines jusqu'au XVIe siècle', Henriette Witt, 1884.
Source Firkin
Scanned some rice paper and tiled it up for you. Enjoy.
Source Atle Mo
Derived from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by Darkmoon1968
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The square tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
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A heavy dark gray base, some subtle noise and a 45-degree grid makes this look like a pattern with a tactile feel to it.
Source Atle Mo
Remixed from a drawing in 'Hungary. A guide book. By several authors', 1890.
Source Firkin
A seamless chequerboard pattern formed from a tile that can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i. Alternative colour scheme.
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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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A free repetitive background with a dark concrete wall like texture. This one may be used in dark web site designs.
Source V. Hartikainen
Nothing like a clean set of bed sheets, huh?
Source Badhon Ebrahim
A pattern derived from part of a fractal rendering in Paint.net.
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A free background image with a seamless texture of cardboard. This texture of cardboard looks quite realistic, especially when is actually tiled.
Source V. Hartikainen
Derived from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by Darkmoon1968
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A seamlessly tile-able grunge background image.
Source V. Hartikainen
From a drawing in 'Handbook of the excursions proposed to be made by the Lincoln Diocesan Architectural Society, on the 27th and 28th of May, 1857', Edward Trollope, 1857.
Source Firkin
Nice and simple crossed lines in dark gray tones.
Source Stefan Aleksić
Colour version of the original pattern.
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A series of 5 patterns. That’s what the P stands for, if you didn’t guess it.
Source Dima Shiper