From a drawing in 'Resa i Afrika, genom Angola, Ovampo och Damaraland', P. Moller, 1899.
Source Firkin
The base gradient edited so now more details are rendered.
Source Lazur URH
Super subtle indeed, a medium gray pattern with tiny dots in a grid.
Source Designova
Sounds French. Some 3D square diagonals, that’s all you need to know.
Source Graphiste
A seamless background tile of aged paper with shabby look.
Source V. Hartikainen
Can never have too many knitting patterns, especially as nice as this.
Source Victoria Spahn
To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern the starting point for which was a 'colour modulo' texture in Paint.net.
Source Firkin
Abstract Arbitrary Geometric Background derived from an image on Pixabay.
Source GDJ
Seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Derived from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by mdmelo.
Source Firkin
Prepared mostly as a raster in Paint.net and vectorised.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Abstract Geometric Background 5 No Black
Source GDJ
Can never have too many knitting patterns, especially as nice as this.
Source Victoria Spahn
Seamless , tileable CC-0 texture. Created by my own, feel free to use wherever you want!
Source Linolafett
Three shades of gray makes this pattern look like a small carbon fiber surface. Great readability even for small fonts.
Source Atle Mo
From a drawing in 'At home', J. Sowerby, J. Crane and T. Frederick, 1881.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Les Chroniqueurs de l'Histoire de France depuis les origines jusqu'au XVIe siècle', Henriette Witt, 1884.
Source Firkin
This is a seamless pattern of a woody texture.The original image is here:https://pixabay.com/ja/users/ClassicallyPrinted-1302233/
Source Yamachem
A seamless pattern recreated from an image on Pixabay. It is reminiscent of parquet flooring and is formed from a square tile, which can be recovered in Inkscape by selecting the ungrouped rectangle and using shift-alt-I together.
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern from a tile drawn in Paint.net and vectorised in Vector Magic
Source Firkin