From a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Cowdray: the history of a great English House', Julia Roundell, 1884.
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
ZeroCC tileable stone texture, edited from pixabay, CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Very dark pattern with some noise and 45-degree lines.
Source Stefan Aleksić
The name alone is awesome, but so is this sweet dark pattern.
Source Federica Pelzel
Prismatic Polka Dots 3 No Background
Source GDJ
Derived from a corner decoration itself found as a jpg on Pixabay.
Source Firkin
This is lovely, just the right amount of subtle noise, lines and textures.
Source Richard Tabor
A slightly grainy paper pattern with small horizontal and vertical strokes.
Source Atle Mo
More tactile goodness. This time in the form of some rough cloth.
Source Bartosz Kaszubowski
A seamless pattern the starting point for which was a 'light rays' rendering in Paint.net.
Source Firkin
Inspired by this, I came up with this pattern. Madness!
Source Atle Mo
Abstract Tiled Background Extended 6
Source GDJ
Just what the name says, paper fibers. Always good to have.
Source Heliodor jalba
A seamlessly tileable pink background texture.
Source V. Hartikainen
A free background image with a seamless texture of cardboard. This texture of cardboard looks quite realistic, especially when is actually tiled.
Source V. Hartikainen
Remixed 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
The unit cell for this seamless pattern can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Nice and simple crossed lines in dark gray tones.
Source Stefan Aleksić
Background formed from the original with an emboss effect
Source GDJ
A seamless pattern made from the gold Penrose triangle by GDJ and the two remixes
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Tweed is back in style – you heard it here first. Also, the @2X version here is great!
Source Simon Leo