From a drawing in 'In an Enchanted Island', William Mallock, 1892.
Source Firkin
A series of 5 patterns. That’s what the P stands for, if you didn’t guess it.
Source Dima Shiper
Background formed from the original with an emboss effect.
Source Firkin
This is a semi-dark pattern, sort of linen-y.
Source Sagive SEO
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
A free web background image with a seamless concrete-like texture and an Indian-red color.
Source V. Hartikainen
Retro Circles Background 8 No Black
Source GDJ
Simple wide squares with a small indent. Fits all.
Source Petr Šulc.
From a drawing in 'Heroes of North African Discovery', Nancy Meugens, 1894.
Source Firkin
Seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be extracted by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Light gray paper pattern with small traces of fiber and some dust.
Source Atle Mo
Prismatic Geometric Tessellation Pattern No Background
Source GDJ
Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 3 No Black
Source GDJ
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
A pattern derived from repeating unit cells each derived from part of a fractal rendering in paint.net.
Source Firkin
Could be paper, could be a Polaroid frame – up to you!
Source Chaos
Prismatic Geometric Pattern Background 2 No Black
Source GDJ
Coming in at 666x666px, this is an evil big pattern, but nice and soft at the same time.
Source Atle Mo
Simple combination of stripy squares with their negatively coloured counterparts
Source Firkin
The name alone is awesome, but so is this sweet dark pattern.
Source Federica Pelzel
Remixed from a drawing in 'Line and form', Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
The classic 45-degree diagonal line pattern, done right.
Source Jorick van Hees
This one is super crisp at 2X. Lined paper with some dust and scratches.
Source HQvectors