From a drawing in 'Gately's World's Progress', Charles Beale, 1886.
Source Firkin
Paper pattern with small dust particles and 45-degree strokes.
Source Atle Mo
From a drawing in 'Real Sailor-Songs', John Ashton, 1891.
Source Firkin
A pale yellow background pattern with vertical stripes. The stripes are partially faded. I think this background image turned out pretty well, especially those faded stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
From a drawing in 'Artists and Arabs', Henry Blackburn, 1868.
Source Firkin
A topographic map like this has actually been requested a few times, so here you go!
Source Sam Feyaerts
New paper pattern with a slightly organic feel to it, using some thin threads.
Source Atle Mo
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Formed by distorting the inside front cover of 'Diversæ insectarum volatilium : icones ad vivum accuratissmè depictæ per celeberrimum pictorem', Jacob Hoefnagel, 1630.
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To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
I skipped number 3, because it wasn’t all that great. Sorry.
Source Dima Shiper
A repeating background of beige (or is it more vanilla yellow) textured stripes. One more background with stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
Honestly, who does not like a little pipe and mustache?
Source Luca Errico
Remixed from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by Pixeline
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern formed from a sports car on clker.com. To get the tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Light gray pattern with an almost wall tile-like appearance.
Source Markus Tinner
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Seamless Prismatic Quadrilateral Line Art Pattern No Background
Source GDJ
Zero CC tileable brick texture, photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
It almost looks a bit blurry, but then again, so are fishes.
Source Petr Šulc
Remixed from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by Pixeline
Source Firkin
Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 3 No Black
Source GDJ
It’s an egg, in the form of a pattern. This really is 2012.
Source Paul Phönixweiß