From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Line and form', Walter Crane, 1914.
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A beautiful dark padded pattern, like an old classic sofa.
Source Chris Baldie
Vector version of a png that was uploaded to Pixabay by pencilparker
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Remixed from a JPG that was uploaded to Pixabay by susanlu4esm
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One more from Badhon, sharp horizontal lines making an embossed paper feeling.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
Spice up your next school project with this icon background.
Source Swetha
Heavy depth and shadows here, but might work well on some mobile apps.
Source Damian Rivas
Seamless pattern formed from a square tile that can be retrieved in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift-alt-i.
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This pattern comes in orange, and it looks as if it is "made of glass".
Source V. Hartikainen
This is so subtle: We’re talking 1% opacity. Get your squint on!
Source Atle Mo
From a drawing of the coat of arms of the Ottoman Empire on Wikimedia.
Source Firkin
Recreated from a pattern found in 'Az Osztrák-Magyar Monarchia irásban és képben', 1882. To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
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A light brushed aluminum pattern for your pleasure.
Source Tim Ward
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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To get the tile this is made up from select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
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From a drawing in 'Les Chroniqueurs de l'Histoire de France depuis les origines jusqu'au XVIe siècle', Henriette Witt, 1884.
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With a name like this, it has to be hot. Diagonal lines in light shades.
Source Isaac
This was formed by distorting an image of a background on Pixabay.
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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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Zero CC tileable wood texture, made by me procedurally in Neo Texture Edit.
Source Sojan Janso
The act or state of corrugating or of being corrugated, a wrinkle; fold; furrow; ridge.
Source Anna Litvinuk
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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Light gray version of the Binding pattern that looks a bit like fabric.
Source Newbury
A background pattern inspired by designs seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857.
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