Remixed from a drawing in 'A Child of the Age', Francis Adams, 1894.
Source Firkin
Lovely light gray floral motif with some subtle shades.
Source GraphicsWall
A simple but elegant classic. Every collection needs one of these.
Source Christopher Burton
Nice and simple crossed lines in dark gray tones.
Source Stefan Aleksić
Remixed from a drawing in 'Очерки Русской Исторіи въ памятникахъ быта', Petr Polevoi, 1879.
Source Firkin
It’s an egg, in the form of a pattern. This really is 2012.
Source Paul Phönixweiß
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
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
From a design in 'Storia del Palazzo Vecchio in Firenze', Aurelio Gotti, 1889.
Source Firkin
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
The unit cell for this seamless pattern can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Utilising some flowers from Almeidah. To get the unit tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
A simple circle. That’s all it takes. This one is even transparent, for those who like that.
Source Saqib
Might not be super subtle, but quite original in its form.
Source Alex Smith
A seamless chequerboard pattern formed from a tile that can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
The unit cell for this seamless pattern can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
There are many carbon patterns, but this one is tiny.
Source Designova
Seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Redrawn based on a drawing in 'По Сѣверо-Западу Россіи' Konstantin Sluchevsky, 1897.
Source Firkin
Colorful Floral Background 3 No Black
Source GDJ
It has waves, so make sure you don’t get sea sickness.
Source CoolPatterns
Floral patterns will never go out of style, so enjoy this one.
Source Lasma
The classic 45-degree diagonal line pattern, done right.
Source Jorick van Hees
Looks like a technical drawing board: small squares forming a nice grid.
Source We Are Pixel8
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Not the most creative name, but it’s a good all-purpose light background.
Source Dmitry
Prismatic Hypnotic Pattern 2 No Background
Source GDJ