Seamless , tileable CC-0 texture. Created by my own, feel free to use wherever you want!
Source Linolafett
From a drawing in 'Studies for Stories', Jean Ingelow, 1864.
Source Firkin
Medium gray pattern with small strokes to give a weave effect.
Source Catherine
Prismatic Polka Dots 3 No Background
Source GDJ
A topographic map like this has actually been requested a few times, so here you go!
Source Sam Feyaerts
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
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 'Chambéry à la fin du XIVe siècle', Timoleon Chapperon, 1863.
Source Firkin
An alternative colour scheme for the original background.
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
From a design found in 'History of the Virginia Company of London; with letters to and from the first Colony, never before printed', Edward Neill, 1869.
Source Firkin
Made by distorting a simple pattern using the 'sin waves' plugin for Paint.net and vectorising in Vector Magic
Source Firkin
Tiny circle waves, almost like the ocean.
Source Sagive
There are many carbon patterns, but this one is tiny.
Source Designova
Prismatic Triangular Background Design Mark II 5
Source GDJ
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
From a drawing in 'Navigations de Alouys de Cademoste.-La Navigation du Capitaine Pierre Sintre', Alvise da ca da Mosto, 1895.
Source Firkin
Seamless Light Background Texture.
Source V. Hartikainen
After 1 comes 2, same but different. You get the idea.
Source Hendrik Lammers
A repeating background with a look of paper. I have added some changes to PatCreator. Now you can share your designs by submitting them to a new gallery section. Start by clicking Edit with PatCreator above.
Source V. Hartikainen
From a drawing in 'Artists and Arabs', Henry Blackburn, 1868
Source Firkin