From a drawing in 'Heroes of North African Discovery', Nancy Meugens, 1894.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'A Rolling Stone. A tale of wrongs and revenge', John Hartley, 1878.
Source Firkin
This is indeed a bit strange, but here’s to the crazy ones!
Source Christopher Buecheler
A free seamless background texture that looks like a brown stone wall.
Source V. Hartikainen
From a drawing in 'Danmarks Riges Historie af J. Steenstrup, Kr. Erslev, A. Heise, V. Mollerup, J. A. Fridericia, E. Holm, A. D. Jørgensen', 1897.
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
This one needs to be used in small areas; you can see it repeat.
Source Luca
Background pattern originally a PNG drawn in Paint.net
Source Firkin
From a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Derived from a drawing in 'At home', J. Sowerby, J. Crane and T. Frederick, 1881.
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern formed from a square tile. The tile can be retrieved by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-I. A version of the original with random colors.
Source Firkin
A monochrome pattern from a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscaope and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
A floral background formed from numerous clones of flower 117.
Source Firkin
The classic 45-degree diagonal line pattern, done right.
Source Jorick van Hees
Tiny little flowers growing on your screen. Nice, huh?
Source Themes Tube
Vector version of a png that was uploaded to Pixabay by pencilparker
Source Firkin
Utilising a bird from s-light and some flowers from Almeidah. To get the unit tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
The image depicts a tiled seamless pattern.The tile represents four leaves aligned every 90 ° , which may look like a bird or a dragon .The original leaf design is from a Japanese old book.
Source Yamachem
A nice and simple gray stucco material. Great on its own, or as a base for a new pattern.
Source Bartosz Kaszubowski
In the spirit of WWDC 2011, here is a dark iOS inspired linen pattern.
Source Atle Mo
Might not be super subtle, but quite original in its form.
Source Alex Smith