From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
A background pattern with wavy green vertical stripes. This one has green stripes on a white background. Download if you like it.
Source V. Hartikainen
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
This pack of filters can help you adding a blocky overlay to objects. May come handy at drawing blocks of stone.
Source Lazur URH
Pattern Background, Texture, Photoshop Structure style CC0 texture.
Source Darkmoon1968
Coming in at 666x666px, this is an evil big pattern, but nice and soft at the same time.
Source Atle Mo
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
To get the tile this is made up from select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
A good starting point for a cardboard pattern. This would work well in a variety of colors.
Source Atle Mo
Retro Circles Background 8 No Black
Source GDJ
From a drawing in 'Navigations de Alouys de Cademoste.-La Navigation du Capitaine Pierre Sintre', Alvise da ca da Mosto, 1895.
Source Firkin
Classic vertical lines, in all its subtlety.
Source Cody L
The following free background pattern has glossy diagonal stripes as a texture to it, and it's colored in a light blue gray color. This background pattern is suitable for using in web design or any other graphic design projects. This applies to all background patterns here.
Source V. Hartikainen
A seamless pattern based on a rectangular tile that can be retrieved in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
Green Background Pattern
Source V. Hartikainen
A floral background formed from numerous clones of flower 117.
Source Firkin
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern formed from a square tile. To get the tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
This yellow background consists of a pattern of glossy gold buttons arranged in polka dot style on a seamless texture. Here's a pale yellow background pattern. Feel free to use it for your needs!
Source V. Hartikainen
Prismatic Polka Dots 3 No Background
Source GDJ
From a drawing in 'Handbook of the excursions proposed to be made by the Lincoln Diocesan Architectural Society, on the 27th and 28th of May, 1857', Edward Trollope, 1857.
Source Firkin
This was formed by distorting an image of a background on Pixabay.
Source Firkin
These dots are already worn for you, so you don’t have to.
Source Matt McDaniel
A seamless background texture of old cardboard.
Source V. Hartikainen
I skipped number 3, because it wasn’t all that great. Sorry.
Source Dima Shiper
If you like it a bit trippy, this wave pattern might be for you.
Source Ian Soper