From a drawing in 'Bond Slaves. The story of a struggle.', Isabella Varley, 1893.
Source Firkin
A light gray wall or floor (you decide) of concrete.
Source Atle Mo
It has waves, so make sure you don’t get sea sickness.
Source CoolPatterns
From a drawing in 'Navigations de Alouys de Cademoste.-La Navigation du Capitaine Pierre Sintre', Alvise da ca da Mosto, 1895.
Source Firkin
Pixel by pixel, sharp and clean. Very light pattern with clear lines.
Source M.Ashok
Bright Multicolored Floral Background by Karen Arnold from PDP.
Source GDJ
This is a remix of "blue wave-seigaiha".I hope this subtle color version of Seigaiha would be suitable for background .
Source Yamachem
To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i
Source Firkin
Everyone needs some stardust. Sprinkle it on your next project.
Source Atle Mo
Remixed from a drawing in 'Kulturgeschichte der Deutschen im Mittelalter' Franz von Loeher, 1891. The unit tile can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i
Source Firkin
A background pattern inspired by designs seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857.
Source Firkin
Coming in at 666x666px, this is an evil big pattern, but nice and soft at the same time.
Source Atle Mo
A smooth mid-tone gray, or low contrast if you will, linen pattern.
Source Jordan Pittman
From a drawing in 'At home', J. Sowerby, J. Crane and T. Frederick, 1881.
Source Firkin
Made by distorting a simple pattern using the 'sin waves' plugin for Paint.net and vectorising in Vector Magic
Source Firkin
Wild Oliva or Oliva Wilde? Darker than the others, sort of a medium dark pattern.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
Cubes as far as your eyes can see. You know, because they tile.
Source Jan Meeus
Imagine you zoomed in 1000X on some fabric. But then it turned out to be a skeleton!
Source Angelica
Inspired by a JPG that was uploaded to Pixabay by kokon_art
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
A very slick dark rubber grip pattern, sort of like the grip on a camera.
Source Sinisha
From a drawing in 'Studies for Stories', Jean Ingelow, 1864.
Source Firkin
Small gradient crosses inside 45-degree boxes, or bigger crosses if you will.
Source Wassim
Prismatic Geometric Pattern Background 2 No Black
Source GDJ
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
This is indeed a bit strange, but here’s to the crazy ones!
Source Christopher Buecheler