From a drawing in 'Line and form', Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
Greyscale version of a pattern that came out of playing with the 'light rays' plug-in for Paint.net
Source Firkin
The image depicts a seamless pattern of pine tree leaves.
Source Yamachem
From a drawing in 'La Principauté de Liège et les Pays-Bas au XVIe siècle', Société des Bibliophiles Liégeois ,1887.
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Derived from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by Kaz
Source Firkin
Colorful Floral Background 3 No Black
Source GDJ
Old China with a modern twist, take two.
Source Adam Charlts
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.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Lovely pattern with splattered vintage speckles.
Source David Pomfret
Sort of like the back of a wooden board. Light, subtle, and stylish, just the way we like it!
Source Nikolalek
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
Seamless pattern made from a tile that can be obtained in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Number 3 in a series of 5 beautiful patterns. Can be found in colors on the submitter’s website.
Source Janos Koos
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
Light honeycomb pattern made up of the classic hexagon shape.
Source Federica Pelzel
Otis Ray Redding was an American soul singer-songwriter, record producer, arranger, and talent scout. So you know.
Source Thomas Myrman
People seem to enjoy dark patterns, so here is one with some circles.
Source Atle Mo
Based on several public domain drawings on Wikimedia Commons. This was formed from a rectangular tile. The tile can be accessed in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Bright gray tones with a hint of some metal surface.
Source Hendrik Lammers
I’m not going to use the word Retina for all the new patterns, but it just felt right for this one. Huge wood pattern for ya’ll.
Source Atle Mo
Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 3
Source GDJ