From a drawing in 'Maidenhood; or, the Verge of the Stream', Laura Jewry, 1876.
Source Firkin
One can never have too few rice paper patterns, so here is one more.
Source Atle Mo
I love cream! 50x50px and lovely in all the good ways.
Source Thomas Myrman
You know I love paper patterns. Here is one from Stephen. Say thank you!
Source Stephen Gilbert
CC0 and a seamless pattern from a tile drawn in Paint.net .
Source SliverKnight
A seamless pattern from a tile made from a jpg on Pixabay. To get the tile select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
A topographic map like this has actually been requested a few times, so here you go!
Source Sam Feyaerts
The unit cell for this seamless pattern can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
This one resembles a black concrete wall when is tiled. It should look great, at least with dark website themes.
Source V. Hartikainen
A new one called white wall, not by me this time.
Source Yuji Honzawa
I guess this is inspired by the city of Ravenna in Italy and its stone walls.
Source Sentel
A simple but elegant classic. Every collection needs one of these.
Source Christopher Burton
From a drawing in 'At home', J. Sowerby, J. Crane and T. Frederick, 1881.
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.
Source Firkin
Might not be super subtle, but quite original in its form.
Source Alex Smith
Made by distorting a simple pattern using the 'sin waves' plugin for Paint.net and vectorising in Vector Magic
Source Firkin
From a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Colourful background achieved with gradient fills.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
The rectangular tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Line and form', Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a drawing in 'Kulturgeschichte der Deutschen im Mittelalter' Franz von Loeher, 1891. The unit tile can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i
Source Firkin
One week and it's Easter already. Thought I would revisit the decorated egg contest at inkscape community: http://forum.inkscapecommunity.com/index.php?topic=118.0
Source Lazur URH