From a drawing in 'Artists and Arabs', Henry Blackburn, 1868
Source Firkin
You know you love wood patterns, so here’s one more.
Source Richard Tabor
From a drawing in 'Bond Slaves. The story of a struggle.', Isabella Varley, 1893.
Source Firkin
Geometric triangles seem to be quite hot these days.
Source Pixeden
Dark, crisp and subtle. Tiny black lines on top of some noise.
Source Wilmotte Bastien
Inspired by a pattern seen on a public domain image of a very old tile. To get the unit cell, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
The image depicts an edo-era pattern called "same-komon" or "鮫小紋"which looks like a shark skin.The "same" in Japanese means shark in English.
Source Yamachem
A free background image with a seamless texture of cardboard. This texture of cardboard looks quite realistic, especially when is actually tiled.
Source V. Hartikainen
I guess this one is inspired by an office. A dark office.
Source Andrés Rigo.
Background formed from the original with an emboss effect
Source GDJ
Nice little grid. Would work great as a base on top of some other patterns.
Source Arno Gregorian
A tile-able background for websites with paper-like texture and a grid pattern layered on top of it.
Source V. Hartikainen
Can’t believe we don’t have this in the collection already! Slick woven pattern with crisp details.
Source Max Rudberg
This background has abstract texture with some similarities to wood.
Source V. Hartikainen
This one needs to be used in small areas; you can see it repeat.
Source Luca
Coming in at 666x666px, this is an evil big pattern, but nice and soft at the same time.
Source Atle Mo
Derived from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by pugmom40
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
Greyscale version of a pattern that came out of playing with the 'slinky' plug-in for Paint.net
Source Firkin
Prismatic Hypnotic Pattern No Background
Source GDJ
Continuing the geometric trend, here is one more.
Source Mike Warner
Here is a new seamless wood texture for using as blog or website backgrounds.
Source V. Hartikainen
A seamless texture of black leather. I think it will look best when used in headers, footers or sidebars.
Source V. Hartikainen
The square tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Alternative colour scheme for the original floral pattern.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Gately's World's Progress', Charles Beale, 1886.
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Formed by distorting the inside front cover of 'Diversæ insectarum volatilium : icones ad vivum accuratissmè depictæ per celeberrimum pictorem', Jacob Hoefnagel, 1630.
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From a drawing in 'At home', J. Sowerby, J. Crane and T. Frederick, 1881.
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