From a drawing in 'Uit de geschiedenis der Heilige Stede te Amsterdam', Yohannes Sterck, 1898.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Les Chroniqueurs de l'Histoire de France depuis les origines jusqu'au XVIe siècle', Henriette Witt, 1884.
Source Firkin
Same classic 45-degree pattern, dark version.
Source Luke McDonald
Never out of fashion and so much hotter than the 45º everyone knows, here is a sweet 60º line pattern.
Source Atle Mo
From a drawing in 'Resa i Afrika, genom Angola, Ovampo och Damaraland', P. Moller, 1899.
Source Firkin
Simple gray checkered lines, in light tones.
Source Radosław Rzepecki
Zero CC tileable ground (#2) cracked, crackled texture, made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
This one is super crisp at 2X. Lined paper with some dust and scratches.
Source HQvectors
Nasty or not, it’s a nice pattern that tiles. Like they all do.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
Remixed from a design seen on Pixabay. The basic tile can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
A chequerboard pattern with a fruit theme. The fruits are from a posting by inkscapeforum.it.
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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
Source Firkin
People seem to enjoy dark patterns, so here is one with some circles.
Source Atle Mo
Nice little grid. Would work great as a base on top of some other patterns.
Source Arno Gregorian
A seamless pattern formed from a modified version of rwwgub's tile. To get the tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Colorful Floral Background 3 No Black
Source GDJ
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Pattern produced in Paint.net using the Vibrato plug-in.
Source Firkin