From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
A beautiful dark wood pattern, superbly tiled.
Source Omar Alvarado
Remixed from a drawing in 'Jezebel's Daughter', Wilkie Collins 1880
Source Firkin
Design drawn in Paint.net, vectorised using Vector Magic and finished in Inkscape.
Source Firkin
Did some testing with Repper Pro tonight, and this gray mid-tone pattern came out.
Source Atle Mo
Drawn in Paint.net using the kaleidoscope plug-in and vectorised.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a drawing in 'Paul's Sister', Frances Peard, 1889.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'At home', J. Sowerby, J. Crane and T. Frederick, 1881.
Source Firkin
This background has abstract texture with some similarities to wood.
Source V. Hartikainen
The image depicts a tiled seamless pattern.The tile represents four leaves aligned every 90 ° , which may look like a bird or a dragon .The original leaf design is from a Japanese old book.
Source Yamachem
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
A simple example on using clones. You can generate a nice base for a pattern fill quickly with it.
Source Lazur URH
This one has rusty dark brown texture.
Source V. Hartikainen
This is a grid, only it’s noisy. You know. Reminds you of those printed grids you draw on.
Source Vectorpile