Remixed from a drawing in 'A Girl in Ten Thousand', Elizabeth Meade, 1896.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a drawing in 'Paul's Sister', Frances Peard, 1889.
Source Firkin
The name alone is awesome, but so is this sweet dark pattern.
Source Federica Pelzel
A light gray wall or floor (you decide) of concrete.
Source Atle Mo
From a drawing in 'In an Enchanted Island', William Mallock, 1892.
Source Firkin
Not the Rebel alliance, but a dark textured pattern.
Source Hendrik Lammers
A repeating background with dark brown stone-like texture and abstract pattern that looks like tree trunks.
Source V. Hartikainen
This tiled background comes in red and consists of tiles that look like gemstones. It is more for blogs or social profiles, I think.
Source V. Hartikainen
Snap! It’s a pattern, and it’s not grayscale! Of course you can always change the color in Photoshop.
Source Atle Mo
Drawn in Paint.net and vectorised in Vector Magic.
Source Firkin
A dark brown fabric-like background texture with seamless pattern of winding stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
Dark and hard, just the way we like it. Embossed triangles makes a nice pattern.
Source Ivan Ginev
CC0 and seamless wellington boot pattern.
Source SliverKnight
A seamless background pattern with impressed gray dots.
Source V. Hartikainen
Formed by distorting a JPG from PublicDomainPictures
Source Firkin
Dead simple but beautiful horizontal line pattern.
Source Fabian Schultz
From a drawing in 'Artists and Arabs', Henry Blackburn, 1868.
Source Firkin
He influenced us all. “Don’t be sad because it’s over. Smile because it happened.”
Source Atle Mo
Semi-light fabric pattern made out of random pixels in shades of gray.
Source Atle Mo
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 2 No Black
Source GDJ
Remixed from a drawing in 'Some account of the Worshipful Company of Ironmongers', John Nicholl, 1866.
Source Firkin