From a drawing in 'Bond Slaves. The story of a struggle.', Isabella Varley, 1893.
Source Firkin
Continuing the geometric trend, here is one more.
Source Mike Warner
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
A seamless pattern the unit cell for which can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a drawing in 'Jezebel's Daughter', Wilkie Collins 1880
Source Firkin
Smooth Polaroid pattern with a light blue tint.
Source Daniel Beaton
From a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
A dark pattern made out of 3×3 circles and a 1px shadow. This works well as a carbon texture or background.
Source Atle Mo
Remixed from a design seen on Pixabay. The basic tile can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
A dark one with geometric shapes and dotted lines.
Source Mohawk Studios
Floral patterns will never go out of style, so enjoy this one.
Source Lasma
A bit simplified version. Although it could be edited out to be simpler. Anyway, this time the tiling is converted to a pattern fill -which is using clipping for the tile's edges.
Source Lazur URH
A monochrome pattern from a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscaope and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Same as gray sand but lighter. A sandy pattern with small light dots, and some angled strokes.
Source Atle Mo
The classic 45-degree diagonal line pattern, done right.
Source Jorick van Hees
This one needs to be used in small areas; you can see it repeat.
Source Luca
The tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
In the spirit of WWDC 2011, here is a dark iOS inspired linen pattern.
Source Atle Mo
Tweed is back in style – you heard it here first. Also, the @2X version here is great!
Source Simon Leo
Tweed is back in style – you heard it here first. Also, the @2X version here is great!
Source Simon Leo
Formed from a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 5 No Black
Source GDJ
This is so subtle: We’re talking 1% opacity. Get your squint on!
Source Atle Mo
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
You know I’m a sucker for these. Well-crafted paper pattern.
Source Mihaela Hinayon
Remixed from a design seen on Pixabay. The basic tile can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin