From a drawing in 'An Old Maid's Love. A Dutch tale told in English', Maarten Maartens, 1891.
Source Firkin
A background formed from an image of an old tile on the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art website. To get the base tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
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An alternative colour scheme to the original seamless pattern.
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One can never have too few rice paper patterns, so here is one more.
Source Atle Mo
Not a flat you live inside, like in the UK – but a flat piece of cardboard.
Source Appleshadow
Free tiled background with colorful stripes and white splatter.
Source V. Hartikainen
A yellow tiled background... Blurriness, bokeh effect and rectangles pattern in one mix.
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.
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This was formed by distorting an image of a background on Pixabay.
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The image depicts a Japanese Edo pattern called "kanoko or 鹿の子" meaning "fawn" which has a fur with small white spots.
Source Yamachem
A seamless pattern based on a square tile that can be retrieved in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
A good starting point for a cardboard pattern. This would work well in a variety of colors.
Source Atle Mo
Seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be extracted by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Inspired by a drawing in 'Kulturgeschichte', Freidrich Hellwald, 1896.
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Dark blue concrete wall with some small dust spots.
Source Atle Mo
A dark gray, sandy pattern with small light dots, and some angled strokes.
Source Atle Mo
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
A dark background pattern/texture of a dimpled metal plate.
Source V. Hartikainen
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
New paper pattern with a slightly organic feel to it, using some thin threads.
Source Atle Mo
I know there is one here already, but this is sexy!
Source Gjermund Gustavsen
To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i
Source Firkin