Part of Bayeux Tapestry 1 #2452
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
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Background pattern 277 #2029
Dark CC 0A background pattern inspired by designs seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857.
Source Firkin
Red Gemstone Tiles #1223
Red CC BY-SA 3.0This 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
Weave #733
Wall CC BY-SA 3.0Medium gray pattern with small strokes to give a weave effect.
Source Catherine
Prismatic Hexagonalist Pattern No Background #390
Light CC 0Prismatic Hexagonalist Pattern No Background
Source GDJ
Visual illusion #2586
Grid CC 0The edges of all the red objects line up either vertically or horizontally, but it doesn't appear so. Made from a square tile that can be got by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
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
Psychedelic #745
Gray CC BY-SA 3.0Geometric triangles seem to be quite hot these days.
Source Pixeden
Background pattern 313 #1858
Dark CC 0Background pattern originally a PNG drawn in Paint.net
Source Firkin
Ribbon pattern 2 (version 2, colour 4) #2036
Colorful CC 0The tile this is based on can be retrieved by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Diamond pattern (colour 4) #2282
Blue CC 0From a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Textured Grid Paper #1316
Orange CC BY-SA 3.0A tile-able background for websites with paper-like texture and a grid pattern layered on top of it.
Source V. Hartikainen
Background pattern 259 (colour 2) #2132
Green CC 0Remixed from a design seen on Pixabay. The basic tile can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Floral design 98 (colour) #1781
Green CC 0From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Iron Grip@2X #588
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0Sounds like something from World of Warcraft. Has to be good.
Source Tony Kinard
Triangles #127
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0Dark and hard, just the way we like it. Embossed triangles makes a nice pattern.
Source Ivan Ginev
Zodiac sign symbol background #1927
Red CC 0Just the symbols of the signs of the zodiac distributed in a chequer board-like pattern
Source Firkin
Elastoplast@2X #283
Light CC BY-SA 3.0A fun-looking elastoplast/band-aid pattern. A hint of orange tone in this one.
Source Josh Green
Background pattern 208 #2465
Grid CC 0A seamless pattern created from a square tile. To get the tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Background pattern 220 #2360
Dark CC 0A seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i. Derived from a design in 'Storia del Palazzo Vecchio in Firenze', Aurelio Gotti, 1889.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Abstract Geometric Background #269
Noise CC 0Prismatic Abstract Geometric Background derived from an image on Pixabay.
Source GDJ
Sewn Stripes Pattern #964
Stripes CC BY-SA 3.0A seamless pattern of "sewn stripes" colored in light gray.
Source V. Hartikainen
Leafy pattern 8 #1806
Dark CC 0Inspired by a JPG that was uploaded to Pixabay by kokon_art
Source Firkin
Tessellation 11 (variant 3) #2536
Grid CC 0The original enhanced with one of Inkscapes's filters.
Source Firkin
Background pattern 235 (colour 6) #2250
Red CC 0To get the tile this is formed from select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Isometric Cube Wireframe Pattern No Background@2X #500
Light CC 0Prismatic Isometric Cube Wireframe Pattern No Background
Source GDJ
Wood Background Pattern #882
Wood CC BY-SA 3.0A seamless background pattern with a texture of wood planks. This wood background pattern has vertically arranged planks. You may try to rotate it 90°, to see how it will look like when the wood planks are arranged horizontally.
Source V. Hartikainen
Background pattern 252 (colour 2) #2156
Brown 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
Background patter 294 #1920
Dark CC 0Remixed from a drawing in 'Works. Popular edition', John Ruskin, 1886.
Source Firkin