A free seamless background texture that looks like a brown stone wall.
Source V. Hartikainen
From a drawing in 'Hubert Montreuil, or the Huguenot and the Dragoon', Francisca Ouvry, 1873.
Source Firkin
Formed by distorting the inside front cover of 'Diversæ insectarum volatilium : icones ad vivum accuratissmè depictæ per celeberrimum pictorem', Jacob Hoefnagel, 1630.
Source Firkin
More carbon fiber for your collections. This time in white or semi-dark gray.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
Here's a bluish gray striped background pattern for use on web sites.
Source V. Hartikainen
Seamless , tileable CC-0 texture. Created by my own, feel free to use wherever you want!
Source Linolafett
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
A seamless chequerboard pattern formed from a tile that can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
A series of 5 patterns. That’s what the P stands for, if you didn’t guess it.
Source Dima Shiper
This one is super crisp at 2X. Lined paper with some dust and scratches.
Source HQvectors
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
Submitted by DomainsInfo – wtf, right? But hey, a free pattern.
Source DomainsInfo
Scanned some rice paper and tiled it up for you. Enjoy.
Source Atle Mo
Dead simple but beautiful horizontal line pattern.
Source Fabian Schultz
Remixed from a design seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857. The tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
The Grid. A digital frontier. I tried to picture clusters of information as they traveled through the computer.
Source Haris Šumić
A seamless pattern formed from a tile made from page ornament 22. To get the tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Recreated from a pattern found in 'Az Osztrák-Magyar Monarchia irásban és képben', 1882. To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
He influenced us all. “Don’t be sad because it’s over. Smile because it happened.”
Source Atle Mo
Prismatic Abstract Line Art Pattern Background 2
Source GDJ
Super detailed 16×16 tile that forms a beautiful pattern of straws.
Source Pavel
From a drawing in 'Royal Ramsgate', James Simson, 1897.
Source Firkin
Sharp pixel pattern looking like some sort of fabric.
Source Dmitry
Background Wall, Art Abstract, Blue Well & CC0 texture.
Source Ractapopulous
Remixed from a design seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857.
Source Firkin