Remixed from a design found in 'History of the Virginia Company of London; with letters to and from the first Colony, never before printed', Edward Neill, 1869.
Source Firkin
Inspired by the B&O Play, I had to make this pattern.
Source Atle Mo
Prismatic Abstract Line Art Pattern Background 2
Source GDJ
Remixed from a drawing in 'The March of Loyalty', Letitia MacClintock, 1884.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Geometric Pattern Background
Source GDJ
A playful triangle pattern with different shades of gray.
Source Dimitrie Hoekstra
Dark, square, clean and tidy. What more can you ask for?
Source Jaromír Kavan
It’s an egg, in the form of a pattern. This really is 2012.
Source Paul Phönixweiß
Greyscale version of a pattern that came out of playing with the 'light rays' plug-in for Paint.net
Source Firkin
A large pattern with funky shapes and form. An original. Sort of origami-ish.
Source Luuk van Baars
From a drawing in 'At home', J. Sowerby, J. Crane and T. Frederick, 1881.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Abstract Geometric Background 4
Source GDJ
A repeating background of thick textured paper. Actually, it turned out to look like something between a paper and fabric.
Source V. Hartikainen
A free seamless background image with a texture of dark red "canvas". It should look very nice on web sites.
Source V. Hartikainen
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a drawing in 'Incidents on a Journey through Nubia to Darfoor', F. Ensor, 1891.
Source Firkin
More Japanese-inspired patterns, Gold Scales this time.
Source Josh Green
A seamless background drawn in Paint.net and vectorised with Vector Magic. The starting point was a photograph of drinking straws from Pixabay.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a design seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857. The tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
ZeroCC tileable moss texture, photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
An abstract texture of water. It's not perfect, but will do. You may download if you like it.
Source V. Hartikainen
Simple combination of stripy squares with their negatively coloured counterparts
Source Firkin
A seamless pale yellow paper background with a pattern of animal tracks.
Source V. Hartikainen