From a drawing in 'Cowdray: the history of a great English House', Julia Roundell, 1884.
Source Firkin
Nasty or not, it’s a nice pattern that tiles. Like they all do.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
Prismatic Abstract Geometric Background 4 No Black
Source GDJ
An emulated “transparent” background pattern, like that of all kinds of computer graphics software.
Source AdamStanislav
Nasty or not, it’s a nice pattern that tiles. Like they all do.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
Remixed from a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892. The tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
High detail stone wall with minor cracks and specks.
Source Projecteightyfive
Remixed from a drawing in 'The March of Loyalty', Letitia MacClintock, 1884.
Source Firkin
Abstract Arbitrary Geometric Background derived from an image on Pixabay.
Source GDJ
Got some felt in my mailbox today, so I scanned it for you to use.
Source Atle Mo
From a drawing in 'Bond Slaves. The story of a struggle.', Isabella Varley, 1893.
Source Firkin
Bit of a strange name on this one, but still nice. Tiny gray square things.
Source Carlos Valdez
A very dark spotted twinkle pattern for your twinkle needs.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
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.
Source Firkin
You don’t see many mid-tone patterns here, but this one is nice.
Source Joel Klein
I guess this is inspired by the city of Ravenna in Italy and its stone walls.
Source Sentel
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
This is a grid, only it’s noisy. You know. Reminds you of those printed grids you draw on.
Source Vectorpile
A seamless background texture of old cardboard.
Source V. Hartikainen
Has nothing to do with toast, but it’s nice and subtle.
Source Pippin Lee