From a drawing in 'At home', J. Sowerby, J. Crane and T. Frederick, 1881.
Source Firkin
A light gray fabric pattern with faded vertical stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Vector version of a png that was uploaded to Pixabay by pencilparker
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From a drawing in 'Cowdray: the history of a great English House', Julia Roundell, 1884.
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Remixed from a drawing in 'Очерки Русской Исторіи въ памятникахъ быта', Petr Polevoi, 1879.
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Just what the name says, paper fibers. Always good to have.
Source Heliodor jalba
This seamless background image should look nice on websites. It has a dark blue gray texture with vertical stripes, it tiles seamlessly and, like all of the background images here, it's free. So, if you like it, take it!
Source V. Hartikainen
Zero CC tileable wood texture, made by me procedurally in Neo Texture Edit.
Source Sojan Janso
A very dark asfalt pattern based off of a photo taken with my iPhone.
Source Atle Mo
An emulated “transparent” background pattern, like that of all kinds of computer graphics software.
Source AdamStanislav
The unit cell for this seamless pattern can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i.
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A repeating background for websites with a texture of black groove stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
This beige background pattern resembles a concrete wall with engravings or something similar to it.
Source V. Hartikainen
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.
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Nice little grid. Would work great as a base on top of some other patterns.
Source Arno Gregorian
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
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A black tile-able background with paper-like texture.
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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.
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A seamless pattern drawn originally in Paint.net by distorting a slice of background pattern 116 and copying the resulting triangle numerous times.
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From a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
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A repeating background of beige (or is it more vanilla yellow) textured stripes. One more background with stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
The tile can be had by using shift+alt+i on the selected rectangle in Inkscape
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Background pattern originally a PNG drawn in Paint.net
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