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 'Artists and Arabs', Henry Blackburn, 1868
Source Firkin
I love cream! 50x50px and lovely in all the good ways.
Source Thomas Myrman
An attempt for cleaning up the original image in a few steps.
Source Lazur URH
Nice and simple crossed lines in dark gray tones.
Source Stefan Aleksić
It’s an egg, in the form of a pattern. This really is 2012.
Source Paul Phönixweiß
Simple gray checkered lines, in light tones.
Source Radosław Rzepecki
Original seamless pattern with an Inkscape filter.
Source Firkin
emixed from a JPG that was uploaded to Pixabay by Kyotime
Source Firkin
Nicely crafted paper pattern, although a bit on the large side (500x593px).
Source Blaq Annabiosis
Formed by distorting a JPG from PublicDomainPictures
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
Formed by distorting the inside front cover of 'Diversæ insectarum volatilium : icones ad vivum accuratissmè depictæ per celeberrimum pictorem', Jacob Hoefnagel, 1630.
Source Firkin
Like the name suggests, this background image consists of a pattern of dark bricks. It may be an option for you, if you are looking for something that looks like a brick wall for use as a background on web pages. It's not a masterpiece, but looks pretty nice when is tiled.
Source V. Hartikainen
A seamless pattern drawn originally in Paint.net by distorting a slice of background pattern 116 and copying the resulting triangle numerous times.
Source Firkin
You know I love paper patterns. Here is one from Stephen. Say thank you!
Source Stephen Gilbert
To get the tile this is formed from select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
One week and it's Easter already. Thought I would revisit the decorated egg contest at inkscape community: http://forum.inkscapecommunity.com/index.php?topic=118.0
Source Lazur URH
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a drawing in 'A Child of the Age', Francis Adams, 1894.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a drawing in 'Line and form", Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
A pattern drawn in Paint.net and vectorized in Vector Magic.
Source Firkin
CC0 and a seamless pattern from a tile drawn in Paint.net .
Source SliverKnight