From a drawing in 'Gately's World's Progress', Charles Beale, 1886.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'In an Enchanted Island', William Mallock, 1892.
Source Firkin
New paper pattern with a slightly organic feel to it, using some thin threads.
Source Atle Mo
A pattern formed from a squared tile. The tile can be accessed in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a drawing in 'Hungary. A guide book. By several authors', 1890.
Source Firkin
A repeating graphic with ancient pattern. I came up with this name/title at last minute, so you may find that there is very little of ancientness in this pattern after all.
Source V. Hartikainen
This background image has seamless texture that resembles a surface of gray stone.
Source V. Hartikainen
Pixel by pixel, sharp and clean. Very light pattern with clear lines.
Source M.Ashok
A dark gray, sandy pattern with small light dots, and some angled strokes.
Source Atle Mo
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Vector version of a png that was uploaded to Pixabay by pencilparker
Source Firkin
Pattern produced in Paint.net using the Vibrato plug-in.
Source Firkin
The image depicts the Japanese Edo pattern called "seigaiha" or "青海波" meaning "blue -sea- wave".I hope it's suitable for the summer season.
Source Yamachem
Super dark, crisp and detailed. And a Kill Bill reference.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
Remixed from a drawing in 'Chambéry à la fin du XIVe siècle', Timoleon Chapperon, 1863.
Source Firkin
Love me some light mesh on a Monday. Sharp.
Source Wilmotte Bastien
Super dark, crisp and detailed. And a Kill Bill reference.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
A colourful background drawn originally in paint.net and vectorised in Vector Magic.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Geometric Tessellation Pattern 3 No Background
Source GDJ
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
Seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be extracted by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Dark wooden pattern, given the subtle treatment. based on texture from Cloaks. https://cloaks.deviantart.com
Source Atle Mo