A background pattern inspired by designs seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857.
Source Firkin
Vector version of a png that was uploaded to Pixabay by pencilparker
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
Pattern formed from simple shapes. Black version.
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
Tweed is back in style – you heard it here first. Also, the @2X version here is great!
Source Simon Leo
Your eyes can trip a bit from looking at this – use it wisely.
Source Michal Chovanec
More bright luxury. This is a bit larger than fancy deboss, and with a bit more noise.
Source Viszt Péter
An abstract pale yellow paper-like background with stains colored in yellow and green.
Source V. Hartikainen
A topographic map like this has actually been requested a few times, so here you go!
Source Sam Feyaerts
Prismatic Polka Dots Mark II 2 No Background
Source GDJ
Prismatic Curved Diamond Pattern 5 No Background
Source GDJ
Inspired by a pattern found in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
Source Firkin
Inspired by a pattern found in 'A General History of Hampshire, or the County of Southampton, including the Isle of Wight', Bernard Woodwood, 1861
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Line and form', Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
You know you love wood patterns, so here’s one more.
Source Richard Tabor
A blue background wallpaper for websites. It has a seamless texture with vertical stripes. It looks quite nice not only when using as a tiled background on websites, but also on computer desktops.
Source V. Hartikainen
A seamless pattern formed from a square tile. The tile can be retrieved by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-I.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Les Chroniqueurs de l'Histoire de France depuis les origines jusqu'au XVIe siècle', Henriette Witt, 1884.
Source Firkin
A seamless dark leather-like background texture with diagonal lines that look like stitches.
Source V. Hartikainen
Prismatic Abstract Geometric Background 3
Source GDJ
Simple combination of stripy squares with their negatively coloured counterparts
Source Firkin