From a drawing in 'In an Enchanted Island', William Mallock, 1892.
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern from a tile made from a jpg on Pixabay. To get the tile select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
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You don’t see many mid-tone patterns here, but this one is nice.
Source Joel Klein
Like the name says, light and gray, with some small dots and circles.
Source Brenda Lay
From a drawing in 'Resa i Afrika, genom Angola, Ovampo och Damaraland', P. Moller, 1899.
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Dark, square, clean and tidy. What more can you ask for?
Source Jaromír Kavan
Prismatic Abstract Geometric Background 4 No Black
Source GDJ
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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Derived from elements found in a floral ornament drawing on Pixabay.
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You know you can’t get enough of these linen-fabric-y patterns.
Source James Basoo
This is a grid, only it’s noisy. You know. Reminds you of those printed grids you draw on.
Source Vectorpile
The square tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
A dark pattern made out of 3×3 circles and a 1px shadow. This works well as a carbon texture or background.
Source Atle Mo
A large pattern with funky shapes and form. An original. Sort of origami-ish.
Source Luuk van Baars
Orange-red pattern for tiled backgrounds.
Source V. Hartikainen
You can never get enough of these tiny pixel patterns with sharp lines.
Source Designova
To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
This background pattern has futuristic look. So, maybe it could be used on websites or blogs dedicated to video games?!
Source V. Hartikainen
I skipped number 3, because it wasn’t all that great. Sorry.
Source Dima Shiper
Remixed from a design seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857. The tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a drawing in 'Hungary. A guide book. By several authors', 1890.
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The unit cell for this seamless pattern can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i.
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Vector version of a JPG that was uploaded to Pixabay by theasad121
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