Made by distorting a simple pattern using the 'sin waves' plugin for Paint.net and vectorising in Vector Magic
Source Firkin
Here's a new paper-like background for free use on personal and commercial projects (this applies to all background patterns here).
Source V. Hartikainen
Prismatic Curved Diamond Pattern 2 No Background
Source GDJ
One more brick pattern. A bit more depth to this one.
Source Benjamin Ward
The original has been presented as black on transparent and stored in the pattern definitions. To retrieve the unit tile select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Cowdray: the history of a great English House', Julia Roundell, 1884.
Source Firkin
Design drawn in Paint.net, vectorised using Vector Magic and finished in Inkscape.
Source Firkin
Colour version of the original pattern inspired by the front cover of 'Old and New Paris', Henry Edwards, 1894.
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
Dark, crisp and subtle. Tiny black lines on top of some noise.
Source Wilmotte Bastien
Remixed from a drawing in 'In an Enchanted Island', William Mallock, 1892.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Geometric Pattern Background 2
Source GDJ
Derived from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by Darkmoon1968
Source Firkin
Awesome name, great pattern. Who does not love space?
Source Nick Batchelor
Remixed from a drawing in 'Hungary. A guide book. By several authors', 1890.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Cowdray: the history of a great English House', Julia Roundell, 1884.
Source Firkin
The image depicts a seamless pattern which includes hexagonally-aligned gourds with BG in light-brown.
Source Yamachem
A comeback for you: the popular Escheresque, now in black.
Source Patten
Nice and simple crossed lines in dark gray tones.
Source Stefan Aleksić
Can’t believe we don’t have this in the collection already! Slick woven pattern with crisp details.
Source Max Rudberg
You know I’m a sucker for these. Well-crafted paper pattern.
Source Mihaela Hinayon
This is the remix of "plant pattern 02".I changed the object color to white and the BG to purple.The image a seamless pattern derived from a weed which I can't identify.The original weed image is from here:jp.pinterest.com/pin/500744052301423641/
Source Yamachem
Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 5 No Black
Source GDJ
It’s an egg, in the form of a pattern. This really is 2012.
Source Paul Phönixweiß
Number 2 in a series of 5 beautiful patterns. Can be found in colors on the submitter’s website.
Source Janos Koos