From a drawing in 'Gately's World's Progress', Charles Beale, 1886.
Source Firkin
Square design drawn in Paint.net and vectorized in Vector Magic.
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern based on a rectangular tile that can be retrieved in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Geometric Tessellation Pattern 2 No Background
Source GDJ
Bumps, highlight and shadows – all good things.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
Inspired by a drawing in 'Poems', James Smith, 1881.
Source Firkin
Adapted heavily from a JPG that was uploaded to Pixabay by Viscious-Speed.
Source Firkin
A seamless dark leather-like background texture with diagonal lines that look like stitches.
Source V. Hartikainen
Colour version of the original pattern inspired by the front cover of 'Old and New Paris', Henry Edwards, 1894.
Source Firkin
Submitted by DomainsInfo – wtf, right? But hey, a free pattern.
Source DomainsInfo
Just what the name says, paper fibers. Always good to have.
Source Heliodor jalba
The name alone is awesome, but so is this sweet dark pattern.
Source Federica Pelzel
Heavily remixed from a drawing in 'Barbara Leybourne; a story of eighty years ago', Sarah Hamer, 1889.
Source Firkin
Zero CC Mossy stone tileable texture, photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
The image depicts a seamless pattern of a tortoise in tortoiseshell (hexagon).
Source Yamachem
The edges of all the red objects line up either vertically or horizontally, but it doesn't appear so. Made from a square tile that can be got by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is made up from select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
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Remixed from a drawing in 'Prehistoric Man: researches into the origin of civilisation in the old and the new world', Daniel Wilson, 1876.
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From a drawing in 'Studies for Stories', Jean Ingelow, 1864.
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern formed from miutopia mug remixes on a tablecloth.
Source Firkin
CC0 and seamless wellington boot pattern.
Source SliverKnight
Remixed from a drawing in 'Hungary. A guide book. By several authors', 1890.
Source Firkin
Everyone needs some stardust. Sprinkle it on your next project.
Source Atle Mo
Hexagonal dark 3D pattern. What more can you ask for?
Source Norbert Levajsics