From a drawing in 'An Old Maid's Love. A Dutch tale told in English', Maarten Maartens, 1891.
Source Firkin
From drawing in 'Musings in Maoriland', Thomas Bracken, 1890.
Source Firkin
It’s a hole, in a pattern. On your website. Dig it!
Source Josh Green
Remixed from a drawing in 'Paul's Sister', Frances Peard, 1889.
Source Firkin
Tile-able Dark Brown Wood Background. Feel free to use it as a background image in your designs or somewhere on the web. By the way, the color seems to be close to Coffee Brown.
Source V. Hartikainen
Formed from a tile based on a drawing from 'Viaggi d'un artista nell'America Meridionale', Guido Boggiani, 1895.
Source Firkin
Simple wide squares with a small indent. Fits all.
Source Petr Šulc.
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
From a design found in 'History of the Virginia Company of London; with letters to and from the first Colony, never before printed', Edward Neill, 1869.
Source Firkin
The tile this is based on can be retrieved by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
I asked Gjermund if he could make a pattern for us – result!
Source Gjermund Gustavsen
Dark pattern with some nice diagonal stitched lines crossing over.
Source Ashton
Retro Circles Background 8 No Black
Source GDJ
The classic 45-degree diagonal line pattern, done right.
Source Jorick van Hees
And some more testing, this time with Seamless Studio. It’s Robots FFS!
Source Seamless Studio
From a drawing in 'Az Osztrák-Magyar Monarchia irásban és képben', 1885.
Source Firkin
A slightly grainy paper pattern with small horizontal and vertical strokes.
Source Atle Mo
That’s what it is, a dark dot. Or sort of carbon looking.
Source Tsvetelin Nikolov
A repeatable image with dark background and metal grid pattern.
Source V. Hartikainen
Recreated from a pattern found in 'Az Osztrák-Magyar Monarchia irásban és képben', 1882. To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
A dark metal plate with an embossed grid pattern and a bit of rust. Here's a dark metal plate texture for use as a tiled background on web pages.
Source V. Hartikainen
From a drawing in 'Artists and Arabs', Henry Blackburn, 1868.
Source Firkin
Seamless Prismatic Geometric Pattern With Background
Source GDJ
Everyone loves a diamond, right? Make your site sparkle.
Source AJ Troxell
Made by distorting a simple pattern using the 'sin waves' plugin for Paint.net and vectorising in Vector Magic
Source Firkin