Floral design 98 #1783
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
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Escheresque@2X #778
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Psychedelic Geometric Background No Black@2X #812
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Dirty Old Black Shirt@2X #854
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0Used in small doses, this could be a nice subtle pattern. Used on a large surface, it’s dirty!
Source Paul Reulat
Prismatic Geometric Tessellation Pattern 3 No Background@2X #556
Noise CC 0Prismatic Geometric Tessellation Pattern 3 No Background
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Part of Bayeux Tapestry 6 #2444
Noise CC 0From a drawing in 'Les Chroniqueurs de l'Histoire de France depuis les origines jusqu'au XVIe siècle', Henriette Witt, 1884.
Source Firkin
Light Blue Background Pattern #1161
Grid CC BY-SA 3.0This light blue background pattern is quite pleasing to the eye, it consists of a tiny rough grid pattern, which is seamless by design. That's it, if you like the color, you can use this seamless pattern in a web design without making any further modifications to it.
Source V. Hartikainen
Background pattern 252 (colour 5) #2158
Light CC 0Recreated from a pattern found in 'Az Osztrák-Magyar Monarchia irásban és képben', 1882. To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Decorative divider 235 #2091
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'The Quiver of Love', Walter Crane, 1876
Source Firkin
White carbon #11
Carbon CC BY-SA 3.0Same as the black version, but now in shades of gray. Very subtle and fine grained.
Source Atle Mo
Pattern generator #161
Noise CC 0A simple example on using clones. You can generate a nice base for a pattern fill quickly with it.
Source Lazur URH
Noisy@2X #46
Paper CC BY-SA 3.0Looks a bit like concrete with subtle specks spread around the pattern.
Source Mladjan Antic
White carbon@2X #12
Carbon CC BY-SA 3.0Same as the black version, but now in shades of gray. Very subtle and fine grained.
Source Atle Mo
Nistri@2X #774
Stripes CC BY-SA 3.0No idea what Nistri means, but it’s a crisp little pattern nonetheless.
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Decorative divider 297 #1746
Pink CC 0From drawing in 'Musings in Maoriland', Thomas Bracken, 1890.
Source Firkin
Spirals pattern #1994
Colorful CC 0Uses spirals from Pixabay. To get the basic tile select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
polka dot seamless pattern remix 02 #2495
Pink CC 0This is the remix of "polka dot seamless pattern".The image depicts polka dot seamless pattern.
Source Yamachem
Green Subtle Web Texture #1334
Green CC BY-SA 3.0A seamless green background texture. The image is distributed under a Creative Commons License (like all of the images here).
Source V. Hartikainen
Decorative divider 251 #2069
Dark CC 0Remixed from a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
Source Firkin
Background pattern 257 #2137
Dark CC 0Remixed from a design seen on Pixabay. The basic tile can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background No Black@2X #452
Noise CC 0Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background No Black
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Background pattern 201 (colour 3) #2493
Grid CC 0A pattern formed from a squared tile. The tile can be accessed in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Skewed Print@2X #820
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0An interesting dark spotted pattern at an angle.
Source Hendrik Lammers