From a drawing in 'At home', J. Sowerby, J. Crane and T. Frederick, 1881.
Source Firkin
Vector version of a png that was uploaded to Pixabay by pencilparker
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A mid-tone gray pattern with some cement looking texture.
Source Hendrik Lammers
Heavily remixed from a drawing in 'Barbara Leybourne; a story of eighty years ago', Sarah Hamer, 1889.
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Here I have tried to create something that would look like maple wood. Not sure how well it's turned out, but at least it looks like wood.
Source V. Hartikainen
A free web background image with a seamless concrete-like texture and an Indian-red color.
Source V. Hartikainen
Same as the black version, but now in shades of gray. Very subtle and fine grained.
Source Atle Mo
Prismatic Abstract Geometric Background derived from an image on Pixabay.
Source GDJ
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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Light gray version of the Binding pattern that looks a bit like fabric.
Source Newbury
A seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i. Derived from a design in 'Storia del Palazzo Vecchio in Firenze', Aurelio Gotti, 1889.
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Lovely pattern with some good-looking non-random noise lines.
Source Zucx
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
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A simple bump filter made upon request at irc #inkscape at freenode. Made a screen capture of the making here: https://youtu.be/TGAWYKVLxQw
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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.
Source Firkin
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
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A seamless pattern formed from miutopia mug remixes on a tablecloth.
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From a drawing in 'At home', J. Sowerby, J. Crane and T. Frederick, 1881.
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This background pattern contains a texture of yellow wood planks. I think it looks quite original.
Source V. Hartikainen
From a drawing in 'Cassell's Library of English Literature', Henry Morley, 1883.
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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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To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
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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The green fibers pattern will work very well in grayscale as well.
Source Matteo Di Capua