From a drawing in 'Jardyne's Wife', Charles Wills, 1891.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a drawing that was uploaded to Pixabay by captenpub.
Source Firkin
Alternative colour scheme for the original floral pattern.
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern created from a square tile. To get the tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
ZeroCC tileable wood boards texture, photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Not even 1kb, but very stylish. Gray thin lines.
Source Struck Axiom
Semi-light fabric pattern made out of random pixels in shades of gray.
Source Atle Mo
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
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Remixed from a PNG that was uploaded to Pixabay by VictorianLady
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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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Classic 45-degree pattern, light version.
Source Luke McDonald
A seamless green background texture. The image is distributed under a Creative Commons License (like all of the images here).
Source V. Hartikainen
Background Wall, Art Abstract, white Well & CC0 texture.
Source Ractapopulous
Sharp pixel pattern looking like some sort of fabric.
Source Dmitry
Here's a quite bright pink background pattern for use on websites. It doesn't look like a real fur, but it definitely resembles one.
Source V. Hartikainen
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
A seamless background pattern of dark brown wood planks.
Source V. Hartikainen
It’s an egg, in the form of a pattern. This really is 2012.
Source Paul Phönixweiß
Because I love dark patterns, here is Brushed Alum in a dark coating.
Source Tim Ward
A seamless pattern with wide vertical stripes colored in pale yellow.
Source V. Hartikainen
Zero CC tileable ground cracked, crackled, texture, made by me.
Source Sojan Janso
A pattern formed from a squared tile. The tile can be accessed in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
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A pattern derived from repeating unit cells each derived from part of a fractal rendering in paint.net.
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