From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Number 1 in a series of 5 beautiful patterns. Can be found in colors on the submitter’s website.
Source Janos Koos
"Beige Stone", Tileable Texture.
Source V. Hartikainen
This beige background pattern resembles a concrete wall with engravings or something similar to it.
Source V. Hartikainen
A light brushed aluminum pattern for your pleasure.
Source Tim Ward
Prepared mostly as a raster in Paint.net and vectorised.
Source Firkin
No relation to the band, but damn it’s subtle!
Source Thomas Myrman
From a drawing in 'Resa i Afrika, genom Angola, Ovampo och Damaraland', P. Moller, 1899.
Source Firkin
A light gray fabric pattern with faded vertical stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
Remixed from a drawing in 'Kulturgeschichte der Deutschen im Mittelalter' Franz von Loeher, 1891. The unit tile can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i
Source Firkin
Drawn in Paint.net and vectorised in Vector Magic.
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
This is a remix of "flower seamless pattern".I rotated the original image by 90 degrees.This is a seamless pattern of flowers.These horizontal wavy lines are one of Edo patterns which is called "tatewaku or tachiwaku or 立湧" that represents uprising steam or vapor.
Source Yamachem
Prismatic Geometric Tessellation Pattern 4 No Background
Source GDJ
I love these crisp, tiny, super subtle patterns.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
Mostly just mucked about with the colours and made one of the paths in the lead frame opaque. The glass remains transparent.
Source Firkin
Three shades of gray makes this pattern look like a small carbon fiber surface. Great readability even for small fonts.
Source Atle Mo
Remixed from a design seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857.
Source Firkin
This is a grid, only it’s noisy. You know. Reminds you of those printed grids you draw on.
Source Vectorpile
From a drawing in 'Danmarks Riges Historie af J. Steenstrup, Kr. Erslev, A. Heise, V. Mollerup, J. A. Fridericia, E. Holm, A. D. Jørgensen', 1897.
Source Firkin
More in the paper realm, this time with fibers.
Source Jorge Fuentes
From a drawing of the coat of arms of the Ottoman Empire on Wikimedia.
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
Remixed from a drawing in 'Chambéry à la fin du XIVe siècle', Timoleon Chapperon, 1863.
Source Firkin