A simple but elegant classic. Every collection needs one of these.
Source Christopher Burton
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
Remixed from a drawing in 'The March of Loyalty', Letitia MacClintock, 1884.
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern from a tile made from a jpg on Pixabay. To get the tile select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
A pattern formed from repeated instances of corner decoration 8. To get the basic tile select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Prismatic Abstract Line Art Pattern Background 2
Source GDJ
Background Wall, Art Abstract, Blue Well & CC0 texture.
Source Ractapopulous
Colour version of the original pattern inspired by the front cover of 'Old and New Paris', Henry Edwards, 1894.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a PNG that was uploaded to Pixabay by gingertea
Source Firkin
Looks like an old wall. I guess that’s it then?
Source Viahorizon
Vector version of a png that was uploaded to Pixabay by pencilparker
Source Firkin
A seamless background drawn in Paint.net and vectorised with Vector Magic. The starting point was a photograph of drinking straws from Pixabay.
Source Firkin
The tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Derived from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by darkmoon1968
Source Firkin
Very dark pattern with some noise and 45-degree lines.
Source Stefan Aleksić
I love these crisp, tiny, super subtle patterns.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
Zero CC tillable hard cover red book with X shape marks. Scanned and made by me.
Source Sojan Janso
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 slightly grainy paper pattern with small horizontal and vertical strokes.
Source Atle Mo
Pattern formed from simple shapes. Black version.
Source Firkin
Luxury pattern, looking like it came right out of Paris.
Source Daniel Beaton
Prismatic Hexagonalism Pattern No Background
Source GDJ
An attempt for cleaning up the original image in a few steps.
Source Lazur URH
Prismatic Curved Diamond Pattern 6 No Background
Source GDJ
From a drawing in 'Prose and Verse ', William Linton, 1836.
Source Firkin