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 'Navigations de Alouys de Cademoste.-La Navigation du Capitaine Pierre Sintre', Alvise da ca da Mosto, 1895.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Artists and Arabs', Henry Blackburn, 1868
Source Firkin
A pattern formed from a squared tile. The tile can be accessed in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Small gradient crosses inside 45-degree boxes, or bigger crosses if you will.
Source Wassim
As far as fabric patterns goes, this is quite crisp.
Source Heliodor Jalba
Same as the black version, but now in shades of gray. Very subtle and fine grained.
Source Atle Mo
It almost looks a bit blurry, but then again, so are fishes.
Source Petr Šulc
Some rectangles, a bit of dust and grunge, plus a hint of concrete.
Source Atle Mo
Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 2
Source GDJ
Bumps, highlight and shadows – all good things.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
From a tile that 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
This is so subtle: We’re talking 1% opacity. Get your squint on!
Source Atle Mo
A brown seamless wood texture in a form of stripe pattern. The result has turned out pretty well, in my opinion.
Source V. Hartikainen
A seamless pattern formed from a square tile based on a jpg on Pixabay. The tile can be retrieved by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-I.
Source Firkin
Formed from decorative divider 184 in paint.net. Vectorised with Vector Magic.
Source Firkin
Drawn in Paint.net and vectorised in Vector Magic
Source Firkin
Remixed from a design seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857. The tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin