From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Seamless , tileable CC-0 texture. Created by my own, feel free to use wherever you want!
Source Linolafett
A mid-tone gray pattern with some cement looking texture.
Source Hendrik Lammers
Redrawn based on a drawing in 'По Сѣверо-Западу Россіи' Konstantin Sluchevsky, 1897.
Source Firkin
A repeating background of beige (or is it more vanilla yellow) textured stripes. One more background with stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
One of the few full-color patterns here, but this one was just too good to pass up.
Source Alexey Usoltsev
Prismatic Floral Background No Black
Source GDJ
Remixed from a drawing in 'Prehistoric Man: researches into the origin of civilisation in the old and the new world', Daniel Wilson, 1876.
Source Firkin
He influenced us all. “Don’t be sad because it’s over. Smile because it happened.”
Source Atle Mo
From a drawing in 'Hyde Park from Domesday-Book to date', John Ashton, 1896.
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern that includes the original tile (go to Objects / Pattern / Pattern To Objects in Inkscape's menu to extract it).
Source GDJ
A rusty grunge background for websites. Feel free to use it in your site's theme.
Source V. Hartikainen
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
A yellow tiled background... Blurriness, bokeh effect and rectangles pattern in one mix.
Source V. Hartikainen
An alternative colour scheme for the original background.
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
Has nothing to do with toast, but it’s nice and subtle.
Source Pippin Lee
Embossed lines and squares with subtle highlights.
Source Alex Parker
Colorful Floral Background 3 No Black
Source GDJ
One of the few full-color patterns here, but this one was just too good to pass up.
Source Alexey Usoltsev
Derived from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by Kaz
Source Firkin
A dark striped seamless pattern suitable for use as a background on websites.
Source V. Hartikainen