Page ornament #1988
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'Chambéry à la fin du XIVe siècle', Timoleon Chapperon, 1863.
Source Firkin
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Cardboard@2X #279
Paper CC BY-SA 3.0A good starting point for a cardboard pattern. This would work well in a variety of colors.
Source Atle Mo
Wall #1246
Wall CC 0Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Cartographer@2X #750
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0A topographic map like this has actually been requested a few times, so here you go!
Source Sam Feyaerts
White Bed Sheet@2X #822
Light CC BY-SA 3.0Nothing like a clean set of bed sheets, huh?
Source Badhon Ebrahim
Background pattern 198 #2510
Yellow CC 0A version without colours blended together to give a different look.
Source Firkin
Background pattern 214 (colour 4) #2373
Yellow CC 0A seamless chequerboard pattern formed from a tile that can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i. Alternative colour scheme.
Source Firkin
Rough Concrete Surface #1194
Concrete CC BY-SA 3.0A seamless texture of a rough concrete surface.
Source V. Hartikainen
Paper 1 #15
Paper CC BY-SA 3.0A slightly grainy paper pattern with small horizontal and vertical strokes.
Source Atle Mo
Vintage tile background (colour 2) #2247
Pink CC 0A background formed from an image of an old tile on the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art website. To get the base tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Floral background #1980
Brown CC 0Remixed from a drawing in 'Line and form", Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
Little Triangles #687
Light CC BY-SA 3.0The basic shapes never get old. Simple triangle pattern.
Source Atle Mo
Decorative divider 287 #1821
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'Maidenhood; or, the Verge of the Stream', Laura Jewry, 1876.
Source Firkin
Brick #1377
Wall CC 0Seamless , tileable CC-0 texture. Created by my own, feel free to use wherever you want!
Source Linolafett
Background pattern 225 (colour 6) #2322
Brown CC 0Seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be extracted by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Background pattern 252 (colour) #2161
Colorful CC 0Recreated 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
Tessellation 15 (colour 2) #2221
Yellow CC 0The unit cell for this seamless pattern can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Vichy@2X #72
Light CC BY-SA 3.0This one could be the shirt of a golf player. Angled lines in different thicknesses.
Source Olivier Pineda
Mooning@2X #1141
Gray CC BY-SA 3.0The classic subtle pattern. Sort of wall/brick looking. Or moon-looking?
Source Joel Klein
Zodiac pattern (black background) #267
Dark CC 0A 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
ecorative divider 209 #2365
Dark CC 0Derived from elements found in a floral ornament drawing on Pixabay.
Source Firkin
Noisy Grid@2X #960
Gray CC BY-SA 3.0This is a grid, only it’s noisy. You know. Reminds you of those printed grids you draw on.
Source Vectorpile
Bright Multicolored Floral Background #559
Noise CC 0Bright Multicolored Floral Background by Karen Arnold from PDP.
Source GDJ
Subtle Grey #955
Light CC BY-SA 3.0The Grid. A digital frontier. I tried to picture clusters of information as they traveled through the computer.
Source Haris Šumić
Cross Scratches@2X #626
Paper CC BY-SA 3.0Subtle scratches on a light gray background.
Source Andrey Ovcharov