This is so subtle I hope you can see it! Tweak at will.
Source Alexandre Naud
Colour version of a pattern that came out of playing with the 'light rays' plug-in for Paint.net
Source Firkin
A series of 5 patterns. That’s what the P stands for, if you didn’t guess it.
Source Dima Shiper
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 drawing in 'At home', J. Sowerby, J. Crane and T. Frederick, 1881.
Source Firkin
An aged paper background tile with smeared and pressed text.
Source V. Hartikainen
From a drawing in 'Line and form', Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
The image a seamless pattern derived from a weed which I can't identify.The original weed image is from here:https://jp.pinterest.com/pin/500744052301423641/
Source Yamachem
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
Formed from a tile based on a drawing from 'Viaggi d'un artista nell'America Meridionale', Guido Boggiani, 1895.
Source Firkin
Seamless pattern the tile for which can be had by using shift-alt-I on the selected rectangle in Inkscape.
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is formed from select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
This was formed by distorting an image of a background on Pixabay.
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern recreated from an image on Pixabay. It is reminiscent of parquet flooring and is formed from a square tile, which can be recovered in Inkscape by selecting the ungrouped rectangle and using shift-alt-I together.
Source Firkin
Design drawn in Paint.net, vectorised using Vector Magic and finished in Inkscape.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Les Chroniqueurs de l'Histoire de France depuis les origines jusqu'au XVIe siècle', Henriette Witt, 1884.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a drawing in 'The Canadian horticulturist', 1892
Source Firkin
Wild Oliva or Oliva Wilde? Darker than the others, sort of a medium dark pattern.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
From a drawing in 'Resa i Afrika, genom Angola, Ovampo och Damaraland', P. Moller, 1899.
Source Firkin