Background formed from the original with an emboss effect
Source GDJ
The name Paisley reminds me of an old British servant. That’s just me.
Source Swetha
Can never have too many knitting patterns, especially as nice as this.
Source Victoria Spahn
Just to prove my point, here is a slightly modified dark version.
Source Atle Mo
One more from Badhon, sharp horizontal lines making an embossed paper feeling.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
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 first pattern on here using opacity. Try it on a site with a colored background, or even using mixed colors.
Source Nathan Spady
Seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be extracted by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
The perfect pattern for all your blogs about type, or type-related matters.
Source Atle Mo
Colorful Floral Background 3 No Black
Source GDJ
A seamless pattern created from a square tile. To get the tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
A floral background formed from numerous clones of flower 117.
Source Firkin
Lovely light gray floral motif with some subtle shades.
Source GraphicsWall
This is a semi-dark pattern, sort of linen-y.
Source Sagive SEO
From a drawing in 'Les Chroniqueurs de l'Histoire de France depuis les origines jusqu'au XVIe siècle', Henriette Witt, 1884.
Source Firkin
I guess this one is inspired by an office. A dark office.
Source Andrés Rigo.
A textured blue background pattern with vertical stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
Remixed from a drawing in 'Maidenhood; or, the Verge of the Stream', Laura Jewry, 1876.
Source Firkin
The tile for this is based on a repeating unit close to a design on Pixabay. It can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso