Floral patterns might not be the hottest thing right now, but you never know when you need it!
Source Lauren
Super simple but very nice indeed. Gray with vertical stripes.
Source Merrin Macleod
A background formed from an image of an old tile on the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art website. To get the base tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'At home', J. Sowerby, J. Crane and T. Frederick, 1881.
Source Firkin
A hint of orange color, and some crossed and embossed lines.
Source Adam Anlauf
Black And White Floral Pattern Background from PDP.
Source GDJ
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 bit like some carbon, or knitted netting if you will.
Source Anna Litvinuk
A seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
The unit cell for this seamless pattern can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Uit de geschiedenis der Heilige Stede te Amsterdam', Yohannes Sterck, 1898.
Source Firkin
One of the few full-color patterns here, but this one was just too good to pass up.
Source Alexey Usoltsev
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background
Source GDJ
A grayscale fabric pattern with vertical lines of stitch holes.
Source V. Hartikainen
From a drawing in 'Resa i Afrika, genom Angola, Ovampo och Damaraland', P. Moller, 1899.
Source Firkin
An abstract web texture of a polished blue stone (or does it look more like ice).
Source V. Hartikainen
Nothing like a clean set of bed sheets, huh?
Source Badhon Ebrahim
CC0 and a seamless pattern from a tile drawn in Paint.net .
Source SliverKnight
Imagine you zoomed in 1000X on some fabric. But then it turned out to be a skeleton!
Source Angelica
A classic dark tile for a bit of vintage darkness.
Source Listvetra
Remixed from a drawing in 'Prehistoric Man: researches into the origin of civilisation in the old and the new world', Daniel Wilson, 1876.
Source Firkin