A nice one indeed, but I have a feeling we have it already? If you spot a copy, let me know on Twitter.
Source Graphiste
From a drawing in 'The Quiver of Love', Walter Crane, 1876
Source Firkin
This background pattern looks like bamboo to me. Feel free to download it for your website (for your blog perhaps?).
Source V. Hartikainen
Prismatic Polka Dots Mark II 3 No Background
Source GDJ
Recreated from a pattern found in 'Az Osztrák-Magyar Monarchia irásban és képben', 1882. To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Colour version that is close to the original drawing uploaded to Pixabay by pencilparker.
Source Firkin
Seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be extracted by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
A seamless background pattern with a texture of wood planks. This wood background pattern has vertically arranged planks. You may try to rotate it 90°, to see how it will look like when the wood planks are arranged horizontally.
Source V. Hartikainen
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
Remixed from a JPG that was uploaded to Pixabay by susanlu4esm
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Submitted by DomainsInfo – wtf, right? But hey, a free pattern.
Source DomainsInfo
The tile this is formed from can be retrieved in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Number 1 in a series of 5 beautiful patterns. Can be found in colors on the submitter’s website.
Source Janos Koos
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Looks like a technical drawing board: small squares forming a nice grid.
Source We Are Pixel8
Remixed from a JPG that was uploaded to Pixabay by theasad121
Source Firkin
He influenced us all. “Don’t be sad because it’s over. Smile because it happened.”
Source Atle Mo
A background pattern inspired by designs seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857.
Source Firkin
A seamless background drawn in Paint.net and vectorised with Vector Magic. The starting point was a photograph of drinking straws from Pixabay.
Source Firkin
The Grid. A digital frontier. I tried to picture clusters of information as they traveled through the computer.
Source Haris Šumić
A lovely light gray pattern with stripes and a dash of noise.
Source V. Hartikainen
A new one called white wall, not by me this time.
Source Yuji Honzawa
From a drawing in 'Heroes of North African Discovery', Nancy Meugens, 1894.
Source Firkin