Remixed from a drawing in 'Prehistoric Man: researches into the origin of civilisation in the old and the new world', Daniel Wilson, 1876.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Bond Slaves. The story of a struggle.', Isabella Varley, 1893.
Source Firkin
Just a nice looking textured pattern with faded blue stripes. Well, that's it for today... one background a day, as usual.
Source V. Hartikainen
Could be paper, could be a Polaroid frame – up to you!
Source Chaos
Utilising some flowers from Almeidah. To get the unit tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Abstract Geometric Background 3
Source GDJ
Horizontal and vertical lines on a light gray background.
Source Adam Anlauf
From a drawing in 'Cassell's Library of English Literature', Henry Morley, 1883.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
Source Firkin
This is a seamless pattern which is derived from a flower petal image.
Source Yamachem
The tile this fill pattern is based on can be had by using shift+alt+i on the rectangle.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a design found in 'History of the Virginia Company of London; with letters to and from the first Colony, never before printed', Edward Neill, 1869.
Source Firkin
First pattern tailor-made for Retina, with many more to come. All the old ones are upscaled, in case you want to re-download.
Source Atle Mo
A background formed from an image of an old tile on the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art website. To get the base tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Psychedelic Geometric Background No Black
Source GDJ
This one is super crisp at 2X. Lined paper with some dust and scratches.
Source HQvectors
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Geometric Tessellation Pattern No Background
Source GDJ
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
Derived from a drawing in 'At home', J. Sowerby, J. Crane and T. Frederick, 1881.
Source Firkin
CC0 and a seamless pattern from a tile drawn in Paint.net .
Source SliverKnight
Black paper texture, based on two different images.
Source Atle Mo
Based from Design Kindle
You know you can’t get enough of these linen-fabric-y patterns.
Source James Basoo
Cubes as far as your eyes can see. You know, because they tile.
Source Jan Meeus
Prismatic Rounded Squares Grid 3 No Background
Source GDJ
A background tile of dark textile. Made this a long time ago and just now decided to publish it.
Source V. Hartikainen