This was formed by distorting an image of a background on Pixabay.
Source Firkin
Colour version of the original pattern inspired by the front cover of 'Old and New Paris', Henry Edwards, 1894.
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
I skipped number 3, because it wasn’t all that great. Sorry.
Source Dima Shiper
Prismatic Curved Diamond Pattern 5 No Background
Source GDJ
The unit cell for this seamless pattern can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Studies for Stories', Jean Ingelow, 1864.
Source Firkin
The rectangular tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Imagine you zoomed in 1000X on some fabric. But then it turned out to be a skeleton!
Source Angelica
A seamless stone-like background for blogs or any other type of websites.
Source V. Hartikainen
Psychedelic Geometric Background No Black
Source GDJ
A version without colours blended together to give a different look.
Source Firkin
This texture looks like old leather. It should look great as a background on web pages.
Source V. Hartikainen
The following orange background pattern resembles a honeycomb.
Source V. Hartikainen
This is so subtle: We’re talking 1% opacity. Get your squint on!
Source Atle Mo
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
From a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
A free tileable background colored in off-white (antique white) color.
Source V. Hartikainen
Remixed from a drawing in 'Line and form", Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
Pattern produced in Paint.net using the Vibrato plug-in.
Source Firkin
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
We have some linen patterns here, but none that are stressed. Until now.
Source Jordan Pittman
An aged paper background tile with smeared and pressed text.
Source V. Hartikainen
A seamless dark leather-like background texture with diagonal lines that look like stitches.
Source V. Hartikainen
Horizontal and vertical lines on a light gray background.
Source Adam Anlauf
Derived from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by mdmelo.
Source Firkin
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