From a drawing in 'Gately's World's Progress', Charles Beale, 1886.
Source Firkin
Remixed from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by KirstenStar
Source Firkin
The file was named striped lens, but hey – Translucent Fibres works too.
Source Angelica
Awesome name, great pattern. Who does not love space?
Source Nick Batchelor
Remixed from a drawing in 'The March of Loyalty', Letitia MacClintock, 1884.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a vector adapted from a jpg on Pixabay. The tile this is constructed from can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.
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From a drawing in 'Uit de geschiedenis der Heilige Stede te Amsterdam', Yohannes Sterck, 1898.
Source Firkin
Just a nice looking textured pattern with faded blue stripes. Well, that's it for today... one background a day, as usual.
Source V. Hartikainen
Drawn in Paint.net using the kaleidoscope plug-in and vectorised.
Source Firkin
The tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Not a flat you live inside, like in the UK – but a flat piece of cardboard.
Source Appleshadow
One can never have too few rice paper patterns, so here is one more.
Source Atle Mo
The image depicts a seamless pattern of the design which includes a stylized lotus and a stylized crane.I referred to the original image in a book which is into public domain.
Source Yamachem
Seamless Prismatic Pythagorean Line Art Pattern No Background. A seamless pattern that includes the original tile (go to Objects / Pattern / Pattern To Objects in Inkscape's menu to extract it).
Source GDJ
From a drawing in 'Two Women in the Klondike', Mary Hitchcock, 1899.
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern of leopard skin. It should look nice as a background element on web pages.
Source V. Hartikainen
Seamless pattern the tile for which can be had by using shift-alt-I on the selected rectangle in Inkscape.
Source Firkin
Not sure if this is related to the Nami you get in Google image search, but hey, it’s nice!
Source Dertig Media
To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
I’m not going to use the word Retina for all the new patterns, but it just felt right for this one. Huge wood pattern for ya’ll.
Source Atle Mo
From a drawing in 'At home', J. Sowerby, J. Crane and T. Frederick, 1881.
Source Firkin