From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Background Wall, Art Abstract, Block Well & CC0 texture.
Source Ractapopulous
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
The following orange background pattern resembles a honeycomb.
Source V. Hartikainen
Colour version of the original pattern.
Source Firkin
It’s an egg, in the form of a pattern. This really is 2012.
Source Paul Phönixweiß
Remixed from a drawing in 'A Girl in Ten Thousand', Elizabeth Meade, 1896.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Chambéry à la fin du XIVe siècle', Timoleon Chapperon, 1863.
Source Firkin
He influenced us all. “Don’t be sad because it’s over. Smile because it happened.”
Source Atle Mo
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Heavy depth and shadows here, but might work well on some mobile apps.
Source Damian Rivas
From a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Curved Diamond Pattern 5 No Background
Source GDJ
Adapted heavily from a JPG that was uploaded to Pixabay by Viscious-Speed.
Source Firkin
One of the few full-color patterns here, but this one was just too good to pass up.
Source Alexey Usoltsev
If you like it a bit trippy, this wave pattern might be for you.
Source Ian Soper
People seem to enjoy dark patterns, so here is one with some circles.
Source Atle Mo
No idea what Nistri means, but it’s a crisp little pattern nonetheless.
Source Markus Reiter
Remixed from an image on Pixabay uploaded by Prawny
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'At home', J. Sowerby, J. Crane and T. Frederick, 1881.
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern from a tile drawn in Paint.net and vectorised in Vector Magic
Source Firkin
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
Produced using the clouds, flames and glass blocks plug-ins in Paint.net and the resulting .PNG vectorised with Vector Magic.
Source Firkin
As far as fabric patterns goes, this is quite crisp.
Source Heliodor Jalba