Remixed from a drawing in 'Очерки Русской Исторіи въ памятникахъ быта', Petr Polevoi, 1879.
Source Firkin
Dark and hard, just the way we like it. Embossed triangles makes a nice pattern.
Source Ivan Ginev
From a drawing in 'Line and form', Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
Drawn in Paint.net and vectorised in Vector Magic.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Rounded Squares Grid 3 No Background
Source GDJ
Got some felt in my mailbox today, so I scanned it for you to use.
Source Atle Mo
A dark gray, sandy pattern with small light dots, and some angled strokes.
Source Atle Mo
On a large canvas you can see it tiling, but used on smaller areas, it’s beautiful.
Source Paul Phönixweiß
Here's a new paper-like background for free use on personal and commercial projects (this applies to all background patterns here).
Source V. Hartikainen
Actually, there's no clouds in it, but I think it looks quite nice.
Source V. Hartikainen
Horizontal and vertical lines on a light gray background.
Source Adam Anlauf
A seamless dark leather-like background texture with diagonal lines that look like stitches.
Source V. Hartikainen
Prismatic Curved Diamond Pattern 3 No Background
Source GDJ
A seamless green background texture. The image is distributed under a Creative Commons License (like all of the images here).
Source V. Hartikainen
First pattern tailor-made for Retina, with many more to come. All the old ones are upscaled, in case you want to re-download.
Source Atle Mo
An alternative colour scheme to the original seamless pattern.
Source Firkin
Inspired by a design found in 'Konstantinápolyi emlékeim', Miklos Chriszto, 1893.
Source Firkin
Seamless pattern inspired by a drawing on Pixabay. To get the tile this is formed from, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
As the original image 's page size is too large for its image size, I remixed it.
Source Yamachem
Pattern that came out of playing with the 'slinky' plug-in for Paint.net
Source Firkin