From a drawing in 'An Old Maid's Love. A Dutch tale told in English', Maarten Maartens, 1891.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Resa i Afrika, genom Angola, Ovampo och Damaraland', P. Moller, 1899.
Source Firkin
The act or state of corrugating or of being corrugated, a wrinkle; fold; furrow; ridge.
Source Anna Litvinuk
A seamless background tile of aged paper with shabby look.
Source V. Hartikainen
From a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Turn your site into a dragon with this great scale pattern.
Source Alex Parker
Remixed from a drawing in 'Prehistoric Man: researches into the origin of civilisation in the old and the new world', Daniel Wilson, 1876.
Source Firkin
Derived from a drawing in 'The Murmur of the Shells', Samuel Cowen, 1879.
Source Firkin
Retro Circles Background 4 No Black
Source GDJ
Made by distorting a simple pattern using the 'sin waves' plugin for Paint.net and vectorising in Vector Magic
Source Firkin
This is indeed a bit strange, but here’s to the crazy ones!
Source Christopher Buecheler
Have you wondered about how it feels to be buried alive? Here is the pattern for it.
Source Hendrik Lammers
A slightly more textured pattern, medium gray. A bit like a potato sack?
Source Bilal Ketab
Prismatic Abstract Geometric Background 5 No Black
Source GDJ
Cubes as far as your eyes can see. You know, because they tile.
Source Jan Meeus
This was formed by distorting an image of a background on Pixabay.
Source Firkin
Sharp but soft triangles in light shades of gray.
Source Pixeden
ZeroCC tileabel stone granite texture, edited from pixabay. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
A seamless pattern formed from a tile made from ornament 22. To get the tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Embossed lines and squares with subtle highlights.
Source Alex Parker
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
Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 2 No Black
Source GDJ