A seamless pattern recreated from an image on Pixabay. It is reminiscent of parquet flooring and is formed from a square tile, which can be recovered in Inkscape by selecting the ungrouped rectangle and using shift-alt-I together.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Less Black than we're painted', James Payn, 1884.
Source Firkin
A 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
A light gray wall or floor (you decide) of concrete.
Source Atle Mo
Embossed lines and squares with subtle highlights.
Source Alex Parker
I skipped number 3, because it wasn’t all that great. Sorry.
Source Dima Shiper
A seamless pattern the starting point for which was a 'rainbow twist' texture in Paint.net.
Source Firkin
Prepared mostly as a raster in Paint.net and vectorised.
Source Firkin
Pattern produced in Paint.net using the Vibrato plug-in.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Curved Diamond Pattern 8 No Background
Source GDJ
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
Remixed from a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Les Chroniqueurs de l'Histoire de France depuis les origines jusqu'au XVIe siècle', Henriette Witt, 1884.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Subtle scratches on a light gray background.
Source Andrey Ovcharov
In the spirit of WWDC 2011, here is a dark iOS inspired linen pattern.
Source Atle Mo
The rectangular tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Uit de geschiedenis der Heilige Stede te Amsterdam', Yohannes Sterck, 1898.
Source Firkin
From a design found in 'History of the Virginia Company of London; with letters to and from the first Colony, never before printed', Edward Neill, 1869.
Source Firkin
The tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern from a tile drawn in Paint.net and vectorised in Vector Magic
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern the unit cell for which can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Abstract Geometric Background derived from an image on Pixabay.
Source GDJ
The tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Remixed from a drawing in 'A Child of the Age', Francis Adams, 1894.
Source Firkin
The following orange background pattern resembles a honeycomb.
Source V. Hartikainen
A pattern derived from repeating unit cells each derived from part of a mosaic in paint.net. The starting point for the mosaic was a picture of some prawns!
Source Firkin