Remixed from a drawing in 'Some account of the Worshipful Company of Ironmongers', John Nicholl, 1866.
Source Firkin
Oh yes, it happened! A pattern in full color.
Source Atle Mo
A seamless pattern the starting point for which was a 'colour modulo' texture in Paint.net.
Source Firkin
Colour version that is close to the original drawing uploaded to Pixabay by pencilparker.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a drawing in 'Maidenhood; or, the Verge of the Stream', Laura Jewry, 1876.
Source Firkin
A seamless background pattern with a texture of wood planks. This wood background pattern has vertically arranged planks. You may try to rotate it 90°, to see how it will look like when the wood planks are arranged horizontally.
Source V. Hartikainen
"Beige Stone", Tileable Texture.
Source V. Hartikainen
I’m not going to lie – if you submit something with the words Norwegian and Rose in it, it’s likely I’ll publish it.
Source Fredrik Scheide
From a drawing in 'Line and form', Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
This is sort of fresh, but still feels a bit old school.
Source Martuchox
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Heavy depth and shadows here, but might work well on some mobile apps.
Source Damian Rivas
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Seamless , tileable CC-0 texture. Created by my own, feel free to use wherever you want!
Source Linolafett
A seamless dark leather-like background texture with diagonal lines that look like stitches.
Source V. Hartikainen
ZeroCC tileable stone texture, edited from pixabay. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Seamless pattern the tile for which can be had by using shift-alt-I on the selected rectangle 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
Zero CC tileable yellow craft paper; scanned and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Prismatic Polka Dots 3 No Background
Source GDJ