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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Prismatic Geometric Pattern Background 2@2X #785
Noise CC 0Prismatic Geometric Pattern Background 2
Source GDJ
Checkered Pattern #322
Grid CC BY-SA 3.0Simple gray checkered lines, in light tones.
Source Radosław Rzepecki
Rain pattern #1933
Water CC 0To get the repeating unit, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Background pattern 261 #2076
Dark CC 0Inspired by a pattern found in 'A General History of Hampshire, or the County of Southampton, including the Isle of Wight', Bernard Woodwood, 1861
Source Firkin
Redox 02@2X #852
Light CC BY-SA 3.0After 1 comes 2, same but different. You get the idea.
Source Hendrik Lammers
Mix Stone #1298
Stone CC 0ZeroCC tileable stone texture, edited from pixabay, CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Decorative divider 298 #1744
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'Bond Slaves. The story of a struggle.', Isabella Varley, 1893.
Source Firkin
Argyle@2X #644
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0Classy golf-pants pattern, or crossed stripes if you will.
Source Will Monson
Dark Grunge Texture (Seamless) #1125
Grunge CC BY-SA 3.0Seamless Dark Grunge Texture. Here's a new grunge texture for use as a background.
Source V. Hartikainen
Decorative divider 193 #2502
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'Less Black than we're painted', James Payn, 1884.
Source Firkin
Skewed Print@2X #820
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0An interesting dark spotted pattern at an angle.
Source Hendrik Lammers
Background pattern 269 #2062
Dark CC 0A seamless pattern the unit cell for which can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Cardboard #278
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
Overlapping planks 4 #2572
Wood CC 0A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
Woven@2X #291
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0Can’t believe we don’t have this in the collection already! Slick woven pattern with crisp details.
Source Max Rudberg
Asfalt@2X #928
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0A very dark asfalt pattern based off of a photo taken with my iPhone.
Source Atle Mo
Black Scales #191
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0Same as Silver Scales, but in black. Turn your site into a dragon with this great scale pattern.
Source Alex Parker
Translucent Fibres@2X #944
Light CC BY-SA 3.0The file was named striped lens, but hey – Translucent Fibres works too.
Source Angelica
Noise Lines #897
Paper CC BY-SA 3.0Lovely pattern with some good-looking non-random noise lines.
Source Zucx
Background pattern 277 (colour) #2031
Orange CC 0A background pattern inspired by designs seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857.
Source Firkin
Floral design 100 (version 2) #1773
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
fishnet seamless pattern #2483
Grid CC 0The image is a seamless pattern of a fishnet.
Source Yamachem
Grass #1278
Green CC 0Zero CC tileable grass texture, photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Wall #1241
Stone CC 0Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Decorative divider 206 #2380
Dark CC 0Derived from a corner decoration itself found as a jpg on Pixabay.
Source Firkin
Wood Pattern@2X #371
Wood CC BY-SA 3.0One of the few full-color patterns here, but this one was just too good to pass up.
Source Alexey Usoltsev