From a drawing in 'Real Sailor-Songs', John Ashton, 1891.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a drawing in 'Line and form', Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Line and form', Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
Super detailed 16×16 tile that forms a beautiful pattern of straws.
Source Pavel
It’s an egg, in the form of a pattern. This really is 2012.
Source Paul Phönixweiß
A seamless pattern the unit cell for which can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Little x’es, noise and all the stuff you like. Dark like a Monday, with a hint of blue.
Source Tom McArdle
Wild Oliva or Oliva Wilde? Darker than the others, sort of a medium dark pattern.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
Here is a new seamless wood texture for using as blog or website backgrounds.
Source V. Hartikainen
Dark, lines, noise, tactile. You get the drift.
Source Anatoli Nicolae
Dark pattern with some nice diagonal stitched lines crossing over.
Source Ashton
Remixed from a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
Source Firkin
A seamless green background texture. The image is distributed under a Creative Commons License (like all of the images here).
Source V. Hartikainen
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
A pattern formed from a squared tile. The tile can be accessed in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
A seamless texture of a rough concrete surface.
Source V. Hartikainen
Bumps, highlight and shadows – all good things.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
Derived from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by darkmoon1968
Source Firkin
A seamless striped fabric-like texture colored in a dark reddish brown color.
Source V. Hartikainen
A background pattern inspired by designs seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857.
Source Firkin
ZeroCC tileabel stone granite texture, edited from pixabay. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Embossed lines and squares with subtle highlights.
Source Alex Parker