This is lovely, just the right amount of subtle noise, lines and textures.
Source Richard Tabor
Remixed from a drawing in 'The Canadian horticulturist', 1892
Source Firkin
A seamless dark leather-like background texture with diagonal lines that look like stitches.
Source V. Hartikainen
Bumps, highlight and shadows – all good things.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
Remixed from a drawing in 'A Girl in Ten Thousand', Elizabeth Meade, 1896.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Abstract Line Art Pattern Background 2
Source GDJ
First pattern tailor-made for Retina, with many more to come. All the old ones are upscaled, in case you want to re-download.
Source Atle Mo
Prismatic Abstract Line Art Pattern Background 2
Source GDJ
This could be a hippy vintage wallpaper.
Source Tileable Patterns
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
I took the liberty of using Dmitry’s pattern and made a version without perforation.
Source Atle Mo
From a drawing in 'Resa i Afrika, genom Angola, Ovampo och Damaraland', P. Moller, 1899.
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
A seamless pattern created from a square tile. To get the tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background No Black
Source GDJ
Remixed from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by KirstenStar
Source Firkin
The image depicts meshed silhouettes of various things.The original image is an OCAL clipart called "Enter FOSSASIA 2016 #IoT T-shirt Design Contest" uploaded by "openclipart".Thanks.
Source Yamachem
This background pattern contains a texture of yellow wood planks. I think it looks quite original.
Source V. Hartikainen
Scanned some rice paper and tiled it up for you. Enjoy.
Source Atle Mo
Number 1 in a series of 5 beautiful patterns. Can be found in colors on the submitter’s website.
Source Janos Koos
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Light gray paper pattern with small traces of fiber and some dust.
Source Atle Mo