From a drawing in 'Resa i Afrika, genom Angola, Ovampo och Damaraland', P. Moller, 1899.
Source Firkin
A seamless chequerboard pattern formed from a tile that can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i. Alternative colour scheme.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'At home', J. Sowerby, J. Crane and T. Frederick, 1881.
Source Firkin
I’m starting to think I have a concrete wall fetish.
Source Atle Mo
A seamless pattern formed from miutopia mug remixes on a tablecloth.
Source Firkin
A seamless background pattern with a texture of wood planks. This wood background pattern has vertically arranged planks. You may try to rotate it 90°, to see how it will look like when the wood planks are arranged horizontally.
Source V. Hartikainen
Lovely pattern with splattered vintage speckles.
Source David Pomfret
Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 5 No Black
Source GDJ
The image is a seamless pattern of a fishnet.
Source Yamachem
A nice and simple gray stucco material. Great on its own, or as a base for a new pattern.
Source Bartosz Kaszubowski
Psychedelic Geometric Background No Black
Source GDJ
From a drawing in 'The Quiver of Love', Walter Crane, 1876
Source Firkin
A light gray fabric pattern with faded vertical stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
More in the paper realm, this time with fibers.
Source Jorge Fuentes
In the spirit of WWDC 2011, here is a dark iOS inspired linen pattern.
Source Atle Mo
"Beige Stone", Tileable Texture.
Source V. Hartikainen
Submitted by DomainsInfo – wtf, right? But hey, a free pattern.
Source DomainsInfo
You may use it as is, or modify it as you like.
Source V. Hartikainen
Submitted as a black pattern, I made it light and a few steps more subtle.
Source Andy
Remixed from a drawing in 'The March of Loyalty', Letitia MacClintock, 1884.
Source Firkin
A background formed from an image of an old tile on the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art website. To get the base tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Vector version of a png that was uploaded to Pixabay by pencilparker
Source Firkin
Greyscale version of a pattern that came out of playing with the 'light rays' plug-in for Paint.net
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
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From a drawing in 'Bond Slaves. The story of a struggle.', Isabella Varley, 1893.
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