Leafy pattern 12 (colour 2) #1761
Red CC 0From a drawing in 'At home', J. Sowerby, J. Crane and T. Frederick, 1881.
Source Firkin
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Epithalamion tailpiece #2527
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'Cassell's Library of English Literature', Henry Morley, 1883.
Source Firkin
Tileable Wood@2X #656
Wood CC BY-SA 3.0Not so subtle. These tileable wood patterns are very useful.
Source Elemis
Rice Paper #338
Paper CC BY-SA 3.0Scanned some rice paper and tiled it up for you. Enjoy.
Source Atle Mo
Decorative divider 243 #2082
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
Source Firkin
Background pattern 18 #202
Dark CC 0A seamless pattern the starting point for which was a 'colour modulo' texture in Paint.net.
Source Firkin
Vintage pattern #2296
Brown CC 0Inspired by a pattern seen on a public domain image of a very old tile. To get the unit cell, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Floral background 22 #1780
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Black Leather Texture (Seamless) #1118
Leather CC BY-SA 3.0A seamless texture of black leather. I think it will look best when used in headers, footers or sidebars.
Source V. Hartikainen
Floral divider 6 #1748
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'Resa i Afrika, genom Angola, Ovampo och Damaraland', P. Moller, 1899.
Source Firkin
GPlay@2X #736
Light CC BY-SA 3.0A playful triangle pattern with different shades of gray.
Source Dimitrie Hoekstra
Background pattern 323 (colour 2) #1811
Blue CC 0Adapted heavily from a JPG that was uploaded to Pixabay by Viscious-Speed.
Source Firkin
P5@2X #1114
Light CC BY-SA 3.0Number five from the same submitter, makes my job easy.
Source Dima Shiper
Inspiration Geometry #1175
Unknow CC BY-SA 3.0This one is rather fun and playful. The 2X could be used at 1X too!
Source Welsley
Background pattern 306 (colour 3) #1880
Colorful CC 0Seamless pattern the tile for which can be had by using shift-alt-I on the selected rectangle in Inkscape.
Source Firkin
Dark #1258
Paper CC 0Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Graphene pattern 2 #2234
Dark CC 0Formed from a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Red & Black Well #1260
Wall CC 0Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Dark Tire@2X #704
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0Dark, crisp and subtle. Tiny black lines on top of some noise.
Source Wilmotte Bastien
Crisp Paper Ruffles #841
Light CC BY-SA 3.0Sort of reminds me of those old house wallpapers.
Source Tish
Part of Bayeux Tapestry 3 #2448
Noise CC 0From a drawing in 'Les Chroniqueurs de l'Histoire de France depuis les origines jusqu'au XVIe siècle', Henriette Witt, 1884.
Source Firkin