From a drawing in 'Real Sailor-Songs', John Ashton, 1891.
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Drawn in Paint.net and vectorised in Vector Magic.
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From a drawing in 'In an Enchanted Island', William Mallock, 1892.
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If you like it a bit trippy, this wave pattern might be for you.
Source Ian Soper
Drawn in Paint.net using the kaleidoscope plug-in and vectorised.
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Sort of reminds me of those old house wallpapers.
Source Tish
Recreated from a pattern found in 'Az Osztrák-Magyar Monarchia irásban és képben', 1882. To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
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Remixed from an image on Pixabay uploaded by Prawny
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A slightly more textured pattern, medium gray. A bit like a potato sack?
Source Bilal Ketab
Light gray version of the Binding pattern that looks a bit like fabric.
Source Newbury
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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Remixed from a drawing in 'Incidents on a Journey through Nubia to Darfoor', F. Ensor, 1891.
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A white version of the very popular linen pattern.
Source Ant Ekşiler
From a drawing in 'Line and form', Walter Crane, 1914.
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I love cream! 50x50px and lovely in all the good ways.
Source Thomas Myrman
An abstract texture of water. It's not perfect, but will do. You may download if you like it.
Source V. Hartikainen
Zero CC tillable hard cover red book with X shape marks. Scanned and made by me.
Source Sojan Janso
This seamless light brown background texture resembles a wallpaper with vertical stripes. One way to use it is as a tiled background on web sites.
Source V. Hartikainen
A good starting point for a cardboard pattern. This would work well in a variety of colors.
Source Atle Mo