From a drawing in 'Maidenhood; or, the Verge of the Stream', Laura Jewry, 1876.
Source Firkin
A repeating background of beige paper with vintage look. Repeats to infinity, as usual.
Source V. Hartikainen
A seamless pattern formed from background pattern 102
Source Firkin
This was formed by distorting an image of a background on Pixabay.
Source Firkin
This is sort of fresh, but still feels a bit old school.
Source Martuchox
U.S.-based National Fire Protection Association standard fire diamond for flagging risks posed by hazardous materials. The red diamond has a number 0-4 depending on flammability. The blue diamond has a number 0-4 depending on health hazard. The yellow has a number 0-4 depending on reactivity. the white square has a special notice, e.g OX for oxidizer.
Source Firkin
Classic vertical lines, in all its subtlety.
Source Cody L
A pattern derived from repeating unit cells each derived from part of a mosaic in paint.net. The starting point for the mosaic was a picture of some prawns!
Source Firkin
Made by distorting a simple pattern using the 'sin waves' plugin for Paint.net and vectorising in Vector Magic
Source Firkin
This is a seamless pattern of regular hexagon which has a honeycomb structure.
Source Yamachem
Remixed from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by KirstenStar
Source Firkin
Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background No Black
Source GDJ
From a drawing in 'At home', J. Sowerby, J. Crane and T. Frederick, 1881.
Source Firkin
The Grid. A digital frontier. I tried to picture clusters of information as they traveled through the computer.
Source Haris Šumić
CC0 and seamless wellington boot pattern.
Source SliverKnight
A heavy hitter at 400x400px, but lovely still.
Source Breezi
A repeating graphic with ancient pattern. I came up with this name/title at last minute, so you may find that there is very little of ancientness in this pattern after all.
Source V. Hartikainen
Awesome name, great pattern. Who does not love space?
Source Nick Batchelor
Never out of fashion and so much hotter than the 45º everyone knows, here is a sweet 60º line pattern.
Source Atle Mo
A comeback for you: the popular Escheresque, now in black.
Source Patten
He influenced us all. “Don’t be sad because it’s over. Smile because it happened.”
Source Atle Mo
From a drawing in 'In an Enchanted Island', William Mallock, 1892.
Source Firkin
A light gray wall or floor (you decide) of concrete.
Source Atle Mo
The following orange background pattern resembles a honeycomb.
Source V. Hartikainen