From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
This was submitted in a beige color, hence the name. Now it’s a gray paper pattern.
Source Konstantin Ivanov
From a drawing in 'Resa i Afrika, genom Angola, Ovampo och Damaraland', P. Moller, 1899.
Source Firkin
Light honeycomb pattern made up of the classic hexagon shape.
Source Federica Pelzel
A seamless pattern created from a square tile. To get the tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Nicely executed tiling for an interesting pattern.
Source Ignasi Àvila Padró
Simple wide squares with a small indent. Fits all.
Source Petr Šulc.
Here I have tried to create something that would look like maple wood. Not sure how well it's turned out, but at least it looks like wood.
Source V. Hartikainen
Snap! It’s a pattern, and it’s not grayscale! Of course you can always change the color in Photoshop.
Source Atle Mo
This was formed by distorting an image of a background on Pixabay.
Source Firkin
A background pattern inspired by designs seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857.
Source Firkin
Inspired by a pattern seen on a public domain image of a very old tile. To get the unit cell, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
The name alone is awesome, but so is this sweet dark pattern.
Source Federica Pelzel
So tiny, just 7 by 7 pixels – but still so sexy. Ah yes.
Source Dmitriy Prodchenko
Remixed 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
A seamless pattern formed from a square tile. The tile can be retrieved by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-I. A version of the original with random colors.
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Light square grid pattern, great for a “DIY projects” sort of website, maybe?
Source Rafael Almeida
Can’t believe we don’t have this in the collection already! Slick woven pattern with crisp details.
Source Max Rudberg
Seamless pattern formed from a square tile that can be retrieved in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Drawn in Paint.net using the kaleidoscope plug-in and vectorised.
Source Firkin
Vector version of a png that was uploaded to Pixabay by pencilparker
Source Firkin
More Japanese-inspired patterns, Gold Scales this time.
Source Josh Green
Seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin