A seamless chequerboard pattern formed from a tile that can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i. Alternative colour scheme.
Source Firkin
An aged paper background tile with smeared and pressed text.
Source V. Hartikainen
Seamless , tileable CC-0 texture. Created by my own, feel free to use wherever you want!
Source Linolafett
From a drawing in 'Navigations de Alouys de Cademoste.-La Navigation du Capitaine Pierre Sintre', Alvise da ca da Mosto, 1895.
Source Firkin
If you’re sick of the fancy 3D, grunge and noisy patterns, take a look at this flat 2D brick wall.
Source Listvetra
Zero CC tileable seed texture, edited by me to be seamless from a Pixabay image. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
A seamless texture of worn out "cardboard".
Source V. Hartikainen
A seamless pattern of dark bricks. Maybe it's not very realistic, but it looks good in my opinion.
Source V. Hartikainen
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
The rectangular tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a drawing in 'The Canadian horticulturist', 1892
Source Firkin
A background pattern inspired by designs seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857.
Source Firkin
The name alone is awesome, but so is this sweet dark pattern.
Source Federica Pelzel
Prismatic Abstract Geometric Background derived from an image on Pixabay.
Source GDJ
Number five from the same submitter, makes my job easy.
Source Dima Shiper
A version without colours blended together to give a different look.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 2
Source GDJ
Retro Circles Background 8 No Black
Source GDJ
From a drawing in 'At home', J. Sowerby, J. Crane and T. Frederick, 1881.
Source Firkin
Small gradient crosses inside 45-degree boxes, or bigger crosses if you will.
Source Wassim
From a drawing in 'Line and form', Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is made up from select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Hexagonal dark 3D pattern. What more can you ask for?
Source Norbert Levajsics
Sharp pixel pattern, just like the good old days.
Source Paridhi
To get the tile this is formed from select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin