From a drawing in 'A Life Interest', Mrs Alexander, 1888.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'At home', J. Sowerby, J. Crane and T. Frederick, 1881.
Source Firkin
Not so subtle. These tileable wood patterns are very useful.
Source Elemis
Remixed from a drawing in 'Line and form', Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern the unit cell for which can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Love me some light mesh on a Monday. Sharp.
Source Wilmotte Bastien
Formed by distorting an image on Pixabay that was uploaded by gustavorezende. To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
A seamless web background with texture of aged grid paper.
Source V. Hartikainen
The basic shapes never get old. Simple triangle pattern.
Source Atle Mo
Nothing like a clean set of bed sheets, huh?
Source Badhon Ebrahim
Redrawn based on a drawing in 'По Сѣверо-Западу Россіи' Konstantin Sluchevsky, 1897.
Source Firkin
It has waves, so make sure you don’t get sea sickness.
Source CoolPatterns
Super dark, crisp and detailed. And a Kill Bill reference.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
From a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
A background pattern with wavy green vertical stripes. This one has green stripes on a white background. Download if you like it.
Source V. Hartikainen
Same as the black version, but now in shades of gray. Very subtle and fine grained.
Source Atle Mo
With a name this awesome, how can I go wrong?
Source Nikolay Boltachev
From a drawing in 'Gately's World's Progress', Charles Beale, 1886.
Source Firkin
The name alone is awesome, but so is this sweet dark pattern.
Source Federica Pelzel
A seamless pattern formed from a sports car on clker.com. To get the tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Abstract Geometric Background 5 No Black
Source GDJ
A rusty grunge background for websites. Feel free to use it in your site's theme.
Source V. Hartikainen
Alternative colour scheme for the original floral pattern.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Jardyne's Wife', Charles Wills, 1891.
Source Firkin