From drawing in 'Musings in Maoriland', Thomas Bracken, 1890.
Source Firkin
Heavily remixed from a drawing that was uploaded to Pixabay by ractapopulous
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is formed from select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
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.
Source Firkin
Sort of like the back of a wooden board. Light, subtle, and stylish, just the way we like it!
Source Nikolalek
Dark squares with some virus-looking dots in the grid.
Source Hugo Loning
This background pattern contains a texture of yellow wood planks. I think it looks quite original.
Source V. Hartikainen
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
A seamless pattern formed from a square tile. The tile can be retrieved by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i
Source Firkin
A new take on the black linen pattern. Softer this time.
Source Atle Mo
From a design in 'Storia del Palazzo Vecchio in Firenze', Aurelio Gotti, 1889.
Source Firkin
Tweed is back in style – you heard it here first. Also, the @2X version here is great!
Source Simon Leo
Here's a new paper-like background for free use on personal and commercial projects (this applies to all background patterns here).
Source V. Hartikainen
Prismatic Polka Dots Mark II 3 No Background
Source GDJ
Zero CC tileable seed texture, edited by me to be seamless from a Pixabay image. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Everyone needs some stardust. Sprinkle it on your next project.
Source Atle Mo
Colour version of a pattern that came out of playing with the 'light rays' plug-in for Paint.net
Source Firkin
Abstract Tiled Background Extended 8
Source GDJ
Seamless Prismatic Pythagorean Line Art Pattern No Background. A seamless pattern that includes the original tile (go to Objects / Pattern / Pattern To Objects in Inkscape's menu to extract it).
Source GDJ
A seamless background of warped stripes on paper.
Source V. Hartikainen
You know, tiny and sharp. I’m sure you’ll find a use for it.
Source Atle Mo
This one could be the shirt of a golf player. Angled lines in different thicknesses.
Source Olivier Pineda
A version without colours blended together to give a different look.
Source Firkin
A nice looking light gray background pattern with diagonal stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen