From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Dark blue concrete wall with some small dust spots.
Source Atle Mo
From a drawing in 'A Guide to the Guildhall of the City of London', John Baddeley, 1898.
Source Firkin
The square tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Light gray version of the Binding pattern that looks a bit like fabric.
Source Newbury
The tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern formed from a modified version of rwwgub's tile. To get the tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Luxurious looking pattern (for a T-shirt maybe?) with a hint of green.
Source Simon Meek
Colorful Floral Background No Black
Source GDJ
A tile-able background for websites with paper-like texture and a grid pattern layered on top of it.
Source V. Hartikainen
This one could be the shirt of a golf player. Angled lines in different thicknesses.
Source Olivier Pineda
It looks like a polished stone surface to me. Download it for free, as always.
Source V. Hartikainen
The original has been presented as black on transparent and stored in the pattern definitions. To retrieve the unit tile select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Gately's World's Progress', Charles Beale, 1886.
Source Firkin
Made by distorting a simple pattern using the 'sin waves' plugin for Paint.net and vectorising in Vector Magic
Source Firkin
A free seamless background image with abstract texture of green "curtain".
Source V. Hartikainen
Background formed from the iconic plastic construction bricks that gave me endless hours of fun when I was a lad.
Source Firkin
This was formed by distorting an image of a background on Pixabay.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 3 No Black
Source GDJ
Geometric lines are always hot, and this pattern is no exception.
Source Listvetra
Prismatic Geometric Pattern Background 2 No Black
Source GDJ
The tile this is formed from can be retrieved in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
A subtle shadowed checkered pattern. Increase the lightness for even more subtle sexiness.
Source Josh Green