Inspired by a drawing seen in 'City of Liverpool', James Picton, 1883.
Source Firkin
A free background pattern with abstract green tiles.
Source V. Hartikainen
Formed by distorting the inside front cover of 'Diversæ insectarum volatilium : icones ad vivum accuratissmè depictæ per celeberrimum pictorem', Jacob Hoefnagel, 1630.
Source Firkin
Hexagonal dark 3D pattern. What more can you ask for?
Source Norbert Levajsics
This was formed by distorting an image of a background on Pixabay.
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern based on a square tile that can be retrieved in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern the starting point for which was a 'colour modulo' texture in Paint.net.
Source Firkin
This was formed by distorting an image of a background on Pixabay.
Source Firkin
Nicely executed tiling for an interesting pattern.
Source Ignasi Àvila Padró
Dark pattern with some nice diagonal stitched lines crossing over.
Source Ashton
A seamless pattern from a tile drawn in Paint.net and vectorised in Vector Magic
Source Firkin
This background pattern contains a seamless texture of bark. It's not very realistic, but I think it looks quite nice.
Source V. Hartikainen
A playful triangle pattern with different shades of gray.
Source Dimitrie Hoekstra
From a drawing in 'Cassell's Library of English Literature', Henry Morley, 1883.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Snowflakes Pattern 2 No Background
Source GDJ
A background pattern inspired by designs seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857.
Source Firkin
The rectangular tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
A beautiful dark wood pattern, superbly tiled.
Source Omar Alvarado
From a drawing in 'Cowdray: the history of a great English House', Julia Roundell, 1884.
Source Firkin
Textured Red Brown Plastic, Free Background Pattern. Although there's already enough plastic in our lives, let's bring it to the web too.)
Source V. Hartikainen
A seamless pattern formed from a square tile. The tile can be retrieved by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-I. Version with black background.
Source Firkin