From a drawing in 'At home', J. Sowerby, J. Crane and T. Frederick, 1881.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Here's an yet another seamless note paper texture for use as a background on websites.
Source V. Hartikainen
A dark metallic background with a pattern of stamped dots. Here's a dark "metallic" background pattern for you.
Source V. Hartikainen
A heavy hitter at 400x400px, but lovely still.
Source Breezi
Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 4 No Black
Source GDJ
It has waves, so make sure you don’t get sea sickness.
Source CoolPatterns
Dark squares with some virus-looking dots in the grid.
Source Hugo Loning
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a design seen on Pixabay. The basic tile can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'At home', J. Sowerby, J. Crane and T. Frederick, 1881.
Source Firkin
This was formed by distorting an image of a background on Pixabay.
Source Firkin
A background tile for web with abstract repeating texture of dark "stone wall".
Source V. Hartikainen
Wild Oliva or Oliva Wilde? Darker than the others, sort of a medium dark pattern.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
Seamless , tileable CC-0 texture. Created by my own, feel free to use wherever you want!
Source Linolafett
The perfect pattern for all your blogs about type, or type-related matters.
Source Atle Mo
Zero CC tileable ground cracked, crackled, texture, made by me.
Source Sojan Janso
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
From a drawing in 'Gately's World's Progress', Charles Beale, 1886.
Source Firkin
A free seamless background with pink spots.
Source V. Hartikainen