Horizontal and vertical lines on a light gray background.
Source Adam Anlauf
A beautiful dark padded pattern, like an old classic sofa.
Source Chris Baldie
Used the 6th circle pattern designed by Viscious-Speed to create a print that can be used for card making or scrapbooking. Save as a PDF file for the best printing option.
Source Lovinglf
A white version of the very popular linen pattern.
Source Ant Ekşiler
From a drawing in 'A Rolling Stone. A tale of wrongs and revenge', John Hartley, 1878.
Source Firkin
Psychedelic Geometric Background No Black
Source GDJ
From a drawing in 'Handbook of the excursions proposed to be made by the Lincoln Diocesan Architectural Society, on the 27th and 28th of May, 1857', Edward Trollope, 1857.
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Real Sailor-Songs', John Ashton, 1891.
Source Firkin
The classic subtle pattern. Sort of wall/brick looking. Or moon-looking?
Source Joel Klein
Prismatic Chevrons Pattern 5 With Background
Source GDJ
Used the 6th circle pattern designed by Viscious-Speed to create a print that can be used for card making or scrapbooking. Save as a PDF file for the best printing option.
Source Lovinglf
A seamless chequerboard pattern formed from a tile that can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i. Alternative colour scheme.
Source Firkin
No relation to the band, but damn it’s subtle!
Source Thomas Myrman
From a drawing in 'In an Enchanted Island', William Mallock, 1892.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Abstract Background Design
Source GDJ
Prismatic Geometric Pattern Background 2 No Black
Source GDJ
Prismatic Floral Pattern 3 Variation 3 No Background
Source GDJ
This is sort of fresh, but still feels a bit old school.
Source Martuchox
The act or state of corrugating or of being corrugated, a wrinkle; fold; furrow; ridge.
Source Anna Litvinuk
Seamless pattern the basic tile for which can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Az Osztrák-Magyar Monarchia irásban és képben', 1885.
Source Firkin
This white background pattern has a seamless grunge style texture. Here's a white grunge style background pattern. Use it as a tiled background image on web sites or for other purposes.
Source V. Hartikainen
Drawn in Paint.net using the kaleidoscope plug-in and vectorised.
Source Firkin
Derived from a drawing in 'Elfrica. An historical romance of the twelfth century', Charlotte Boger, 1885
Source Firkin