From a drawing in 'A Life Interest', Mrs Alexander, 1888.
Source Firkin
A pattern formed from a squared tile. The tile can be accessed in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift-alt-i.
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Semi-light fabric pattern made out of random pixels in shades of gray.
Source Atle Mo
In the spirit of WWDC 2011, here is a dark iOS inspired linen pattern.
Source Atle Mo
A free green background pattern with a pattern of rhombuses on a seamless texture. Feel free to use it as a tiled background image on your web site.
Source V. Hartikainen
An orange vertically striped background pattern. Feel free to download and use this orange background pattern, for example, on the web). It resembles a wallpaper with vertical stripes or something similar to it.
Source V. Hartikainen
Paper pattern with small dust particles and 45-degree strokes.
Source Atle Mo
Design drawn in Paint.net, vectorised using Vector Magic and finished in Inkscape.
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Prismatic Geometric Pattern Background 2 No Black
Source GDJ
Feel free to use this seamless background texture as a background on a web site. It's colored in a light pink color and is seamlessly tile-able.
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Prismatic Curved Diamond Pattern 4 No Background
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A seamless pattern formed from a tile made from page ornament 22. To get the tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
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Smooth Polaroid pattern with a light blue tint.
Source Daniel Beaton
Remixed from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by Pixeline
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This was formed by distorting an image of a background on Pixabay.
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The original has been presented as black on transparent and stored in the pattern definitions. To retrieve the unit tile select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i
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From a drawing in 'Cowdray: the history of a great English House', Julia Roundell, 1884.
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From a drawing in 'The Quiver of Love', Walter Crane, 1876
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A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
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Zero CC tileable hard cover green book, scanned and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
A seamless pattern formed from a square tile. The tile can be retrieved by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-I. A version of the original with random colors.
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An abstract pale yellow paper-like background with stains colored in yellow and green.
Source V. Hartikainen
To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
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Your eyes can trip a bit from looking at this – use it wisely.
Source Michal Chovanec