From a drawing in 'Navigations de Alouys de Cademoste.-La Navigation du Capitaine Pierre Sintre', Alvise da ca da Mosto, 1895.
Source Firkin
A free background image with a seamless texture of cardboard. This texture of cardboard looks quite realistic, especially when is actually tiled.
Source V. Hartikainen
Prismatic Geometric Pattern Background 2 No Black
Source GDJ
Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 4
Source GDJ
Recreated from a pattern found in 'Az Osztrák-Magyar Monarchia irásban és képben', 1882. To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
The Grid. A digital frontier. I tried to picture clusters of information as they traveled through the computer.
Source Haris Šumić
A seamlessly tileable pink background texture.
Source V. Hartikainen
On a large canvas you can see it tiling, but used on smaller areas, it’s beautiful.
Source Paul Phönixweiß
A seamlessly tile-able grunge background image.
Source V. Hartikainen
Fabric-ish patterns are close to my heart. French Stucco to the rescue.
Source Christopher Buecheler
A white version of the very popular linen pattern.
Source Ant Ekşiler
The name tells you it has curves. Oh yes, it does!
Source Peter Chon
To get the tile this is formed from select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Alternative colour scheme for the original floral pattern.
Source Firkin
This background pattern contains a seamless texture of bark. It's not very realistic, but I think it looks quite nice.
Source V. Hartikainen
A seamless textured paper for backgrounds. Colored in pale orange hues.
Source V. Hartikainen
You can never get enough of these tiny pixel patterns with sharp lines.
Source Designova
A tile-able background for websites with paper-like texture and a grid pattern layered on top of it.
Source V. Hartikainen
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
Formed by distorting a JPG from PublicDomainPictures
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Element of beach pattern with background.
Source Rones
A seamlessly repeating background pattern of wood. The image is procedurally generated, and, I think, it's turned out quite well.
Source V. Hartikainen