From a drawing in 'The Quiver of Love', Walter Crane, 1876
Source Firkin
A blue background wallpaper for websites. It has a seamless texture with vertical stripes. It looks quite nice not only when using as a tiled background on websites, but also on computer desktops.
Source V. Hartikainen
Prismatic Geometric Pattern Background 2 No Black
Source GDJ
A seamless pattern formed from a square tile. The tile can be retrieved by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Some rectangles, a bit of dust and grunge, plus a hint of concrete.
Source Atle Mo
A seamless pattern made from the gold Penrose triangle by GDJ and the two remixes
Source Firkin
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
After 1 comes 2, same but different. You get the idea.
Source Hendrik Lammers
A slightly grainy paper pattern with small horizontal and vertical strokes.
Source Atle Mo
A seamless pattern the unit cell for which can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Resa i Afrika, genom Angola, Ovampo och Damaraland', P. Moller, 1899.
Source Firkin
Colourful background achieved with gradient fills.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Resa i Afrika, genom Angola, Ovampo och Damaraland', P. Moller, 1899.
Source Firkin
Derived from a drawing in 'Elfrica. An historical romance of the twelfth century', Charlotte Boger, 1885
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'At home', J. Sowerby, J. Crane and T. Frederick, 1881.
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern formed from a modified version of rwwgub's tile. To get the tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Dark and hard, just the way we like it. Embossed triangles makes a nice pattern.
Source Ivan Ginev
Retro Circles Background 5 No Black
Source GDJ
The tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
You know I love paper patterns. Here is one from Stephen. Say thank you!
Source Stephen Gilbert
An abstract texture of black metal pipes (seamless).
Source V. Hartikainen
Some dark 45 degree angles creating a nice pattern. Huge.
Source Dark Sharp Edges
So tiny, just 7 by 7 pixels – but still so sexy. Ah yes.
Source Dmitriy Prodchenko