From a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
Source Firkin
A heavy hitter at 400x400px, but lovely still.
Source Breezi
Made by distorting a simple pattern using the 'sin waves' plugin for Paint.net and vectorising in Vector Magic
Source Firkin
The unit cell for this seamless pattern can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is formed from select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'At home', J. Sowerby, J. Crane and T. Frederick, 1881.
Source Firkin
Fabric-ish patterns are close to my heart. French Stucco to the rescue.
Source Christopher Buecheler
A gray background pattern with a texture of textile. Suits perfectly for web design.
Source V. Hartikainen
Used the 6th circle pattern designed by Viscious-Speed to create a print that can be used for card making or scrapbooking. Save as a PDF file for the best printing option.
Source Lovinglf
Thin lines, noise and texture creates this crisp dark denim pattern.
Source Marco Slooten
The name alone is awesome, but so is this sweet dark pattern.
Source Federica Pelzel
A simple example on using clones. You can generate a nice base for a pattern fill quickly with it.
Source Lazur URH
Remixed from a drawing in 'Incidents on a Journey through Nubia to Darfoor', F. Ensor, 1891.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a design seen on Pixabay. The basic tile can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
This is indeed a bit strange, but here’s to the crazy ones!
Source Christopher Buecheler
Different from the original in being a simple tile stored as a pattern definition, rather than numerous repeated objects. Hence easy and quick to give this pattern to objects of different shapes. To get the tile in Inkscape, select the rectangle and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'A Rolling Stone. A tale of wrongs and revenge', John Hartley, 1878.
Source Firkin
You could get a bit dizzy from this one, but it might come in handy.
Source Dertig Media
This is a remix of "flower seamless pattern".I rotated the original image by 90 degrees.This is a seamless pattern of flowers.These horizontal wavy lines are one of Edo patterns which is called "tatewaku or tachiwaku or 立湧" that represents uprising steam or vapor.
Source Yamachem
Background pattern originally a PNG drawn in Paint.net
Source Firkin