From a drawing in 'Resa i Afrika, genom Angola, Ovampo och Damaraland', P. Moller, 1899.
Source Firkin
Horizontal and vertical lines on a light gray background.
Source Adam Anlauf
A bit strange this one, but nice at the same time.
Source Diogo Silva
From a drawing in 'Line and form', Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
This is indeed a bit strange, but here’s to the crazy ones!
Source Christopher Buecheler
Got some felt in my mailbox today, so I scanned it for you to use.
Source Atle Mo
A background pattern inspired by designs seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857.
Source Firkin
This one is rather fun and playful. The 2X could be used at 1X too!
Source Welsley
A heavy hitter at 400x400px, but lovely still.
Source Breezi
A seamless texture of worn out "cardboard".
Source V. Hartikainen
This seamless light brown background texture resembles a wallpaper with vertical stripes. One way to use it is as a tiled background on web sites.
Source V. Hartikainen
Recreated 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
Prismatic Curved Diamond Pattern 7 No Background
Source GDJ
From a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
This was formed by distorting an image of a background on Pixabay.
Source Firkin
A background pattern with blue on white vertical stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
From a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Seamless pattern formed from a square tile that can be retrieved in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 5
Source GDJ
Never out of fashion and so much hotter than the 45º everyone knows, here is a sweet 60º line pattern.
Source Atle Mo
Seamless pattern the tile for which can be had by using shift-alt-I on the selected rectangle in Inkscape.
Source Firkin