From a drawing in 'The Quiver of Love', Walter Crane, 1876
Source Firkin
A free pink background pattern.
Source V. Hartikainen
Not so subtle. These tileable wood patterns are very useful.
Source Elemis
Remixed from a drawing in 'The March of Loyalty', Letitia MacClintock, 1884.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Handbook of the excursions proposed to be made by the Lincoln Diocesan Architectural Society, on the 27th and 28th of May, 1857', Edward Trollope, 1857.
Source Firkin
You were craving more leather, so I whipped this up by scanning a leather jacket.
Source Atle Mo
This is lovely, just the right amount of subtle noise, lines and textures.
Source Richard Tabor
From a drawing in 'Heroes of North African Discovery', Nancy Meugens, 1894.
Source Firkin
The Grid. A digital frontier. I tried to picture clusters of information as they traveled through the computer.
Source Haris Šumić
Design drawn in Paint.net, vectorised using Vector Magic and finished in Inkscape.
Source Firkin
A repeating background with dark brown stone-like texture and abstract pattern that looks like tree trunks.
Source V. Hartikainen
Number 5 in a series of 5 beautiful patterns. Can be found in colors on the submitter’s website.
Source Janos Koos
In the spirit of WWDC 2011, here is a dark iOS inspired linen pattern.
Source Atle Mo
From a drawing in 'In an Enchanted Island', William Mallock, 1892.
Source Firkin
Colored maple leaves scattered on a surface. This is tileable, so it can be used as a background or wallpaper.
Source Eady