From a drawing in 'Gately's World's Progress', Charles Beale, 1886.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Prose and Verse ', William Linton, 1836.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
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You know you can’t get enough of these linen-fabric-y patterns.
Source James Basoo
Remixed from a design on Pixabay. To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i
Source Firkin
If you want png files of thisu can download them here :
Source Viscious-Speed
From an image on opengameart.org shared by rubberduck.
Source Firkin
Tweed is back in style – you heard it here first. Also, the @2X version here is great!
Source Simon Leo
Design drawn in Paint.net, vectorised using Vector Magic and finished in Inkscape.
Source Firkin
It’s an egg, in the form of a pattern. This really is 2012.
Source Paul Phönixweiß
Seamless Prismatic Pythagorean Line Art Pattern No Background. A seamless pattern that includes the original tile (go to Objects / Pattern / Pattern To Objects in Inkscape's menu to extract it).
Source GDJ
Abstract Ellipses Background Grayscale
Source GDJ
I love cream! 50x50px and lovely in all the good ways.
Source Thomas Myrman
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
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I love these crisp, tiny, super subtle patterns.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
Seamless , tileable CC-0 texture. Created by my own, feel free to use wherever you want!
Source Linolafett
I skipped number 3, because it wasn’t all that great. Sorry.
Source Dima Shiper
A seamlessly repeating background pattern of wood. The image is procedurally generated, and, I think, it's turned out quite well.
Source V. Hartikainen
White fabric looking texture with some nice random wave features.
Source Hendrik Lammers
It’s a hole, in a pattern. On your website. Dig it!
Source Josh Green
More tactile goodness. This time in the form of some rough cloth.
Source Bartosz Kaszubowski
The image depicts an edo-era pattern called "same-komon" or "鮫小紋"which looks like a shark skin.The "same" in Japanese means shark in English.
Source Yamachem
Design drawn in Paint.net, vectorised using Vector Magic and finished in Inkscape.
Source Firkin