A background pattern inspired by designs seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857.
Source Firkin
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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Not a pattern for fabrics, but one produced from a jpg of a stack of fabric items that was posted on Pixabay. The tile that 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 based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i
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This is a seamless pattern of a woody texture.The original image is here:https://pixabay.com/ja/users/ClassicallyPrinted-1302233/
Source Yamachem
Hey, you never know when you’ll need a bird pattern, right?
Source Pete Fecteau
A comeback for you: the popular Escheresque, now in black.
Source Patten
Inspired by a pattern found in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
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Design drawn in Paint.net, vectorised using Vector Magic and finished in Inkscape.
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I skipped number 3, because it wasn’t all that great. Sorry.
Source Dima Shiper
To get the tile this is formed from select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
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Retro Circles Background 8 No Black
Source GDJ
The act or state of corrugating or of being corrugated, a wrinkle; fold; furrow; ridge.
Source Anna Litvinuk
A free seamless texture of reptile skin colored in a dark brown color. As always, you may use it as a repeated background image in your web design works, or for any other purposes.
Source V. Hartikainen
A repeating background of beige (or is it more vanilla yellow) textured stripes. One more background with stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
Prismatic Curved Diamond Pattern 2 No Background
Source GDJ
From a drawing in 'Hundert Jahre in Wort und Bild', S. Stefan, 1899.
Source Firkin
This is sort of fresh, but still feels a bit old school.
Source Martuchox
From a drawing in 'Two Women in the Klondike', Mary Hitchcock, 1899.
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From a drawing in 'Cassell's Library of English Literature', Henry Morley, 1883.
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Bumps, highlight and shadows – all good things.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
A seamless pattern from a tile drawn in Paint.net and vectorised in Vector Magic
Source Firkin