From a drawing in 'Hundert Jahre in Wort und Bild', S. Stefan, 1899.
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I love these crisp, tiny, super subtle patterns.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
White fabric looking texture with some nice random wave features.
Source Hendrik Lammers
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
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This one is rather fun and playful. The 2X could be used at 1X too!
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A monochrome pattern from a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscaope and using shift+alt+i
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From a drawing in 'Studies for Stories', Jean Ingelow, 1864.
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This background pattern looks like bamboo to me. Feel free to download it for your website (for your blog perhaps?).
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Remixed from a drawing in 'The Canadian horticulturist', 1892
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From a drawing in 'Uit de geschiedenis der Heilige Stede te Amsterdam', Yohannes Sterck, 1898.
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From a drawing in 'Storia del Palazzo Vecchio in Firenze', Aurelio Gotti, 1889.
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Remixed from a design seen on Pixabay. The basic tile can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
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Snap! It’s a pattern, and it’s not grayscale! Of course you can always change the color in Photoshop.
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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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To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
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Sort of like the Photoshop transparent background, but better!
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Remixed from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by CatherineClennan
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This was formed by distorting an image of a background on Pixabay.
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Traced from a drawing in 'Household Stories from the Collection of the Brothers Grimm', Wilhelm Carl Grimm , 1882.
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This background image is great for using in web design or graphic design projects. And don't forget to visit the homepage. I frequently update this resource with fresh tileable backgrounds.
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