Spice up your next school project with this icon background.
Source Swetha
From a drawing in 'Cassell's Library of English Literature', Henry Morley, 1883.
Source Firkin
Nasty or not, it’s a nice pattern that tiles. Like they all do.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
From a drawing in 'Hubert Montreuil, or the Huguenot and the Dragoon', Francisca Ouvry, 1873.
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern the starting point for which was a 'rainbow twist' texture in Paint.net.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a PNG that was uploaded to Pixabay by k_jprather
Source Firkin
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
CC0 remixed from a drawing. Walter Crane, 1914, Firkin.
Source SliverKnight
A seamless pattern the unit cell for which can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
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
Drawn in Paint.net using the kaleidoscope plug-in and vectorised.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Super subtle indeed, a medium gray pattern with tiny dots in a grid.
Source Designova
A seamless green background texture. The image is distributed under a Creative Commons License (like all of the images here).
Source V. Hartikainen
Formed by distorting the inside front cover of 'Diversæ insectarum volatilium : icones ad vivum accuratissmè depictæ per celeberrimum pictorem', Jacob Hoefnagel, 1630.
Source Firkin
Seamless pattern formed from a square tile that can be retrieved in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
This was formed by distorting an image of a background on Pixabay.
Source Firkin
Some more diagonal lines and noise, because you know you want it.
Source Atle Mo
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Could be paper, could be a Polaroid frame – up to you!
Source Chaos