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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From an image on opengameart.org shared by rubberduck.
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A beautiful dark padded pattern, like an old classic sofa.
Source Chris Baldie
Drawn in Paint.net and vectorised in Vector Magic.
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Otis Ray Redding was an American soul singer-songwriter, record producer, arranger, and talent scout. So you know.
Source Thomas Myrman
This is a more minute version of "fishnet 01".The image depicts a seamless pattern of a fishnet with a plenty of fish.It may be a lucky charm for fishermen.
Source Yamachem
Smooth Polaroid pattern with a light blue tint.
Source Daniel Beaton
Number 4 in a series of 5 beautiful patterns. Can be found in colors on the submitter’s website.
Source Janos Koos
Subtle scratches on a light gray background.
Source Andrey Ovcharov
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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Some dark 45 degree angles creating a nice pattern. Huge.
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This is so subtle I hope you can see it! Tweak at will.
Source Alexandre Naud
One more brick pattern. A bit more depth to this one.
Source Benjamin Ward
The tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
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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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To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
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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.
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Inspired by the B&O Play, I had to make this pattern.
Source Atle Mo
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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To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i
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A seamless pattern formed from a sports car on clker.com. To get the tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
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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 was formed by distorting an image of a background on Pixabay.
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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