From a drawing in 'Uit de geschiedenis der Heilige Stede te Amsterdam', Yohannes Sterck, 1898.
Source Firkin
Light square grid pattern, great for a “DIY projects” sort of website, maybe?
Source Rafael Almeida
From a drawing in 'Les Chroniqueurs de l'Histoire de France depuis les origines jusqu'au XVIe siècle', Henriette Witt, 1884.
Source Firkin
A dark metallic background with a pattern of stamped dots. Here's a dark "metallic" background pattern for you.
Source V. Hartikainen
It looks very nice I think.
Source V. Hartikainen
Drawn in Paint.net using the kaleidoscope plug-in and vectorised.
Source Firkin
From a design found in 'History of the Virginia Company of London; with letters to and from the first Colony, never before printed', Edward Neill, 1869.
Source Firkin
Based on several public domain drawings on Wikimedia Commons. This was formed from a rectangular tile. The tile can be accessed in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift-alt-i
Source Firkin
Alternative colour scheme for the original floral pattern.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a drawing in 'Analecta Eboracensia', Thomas Widdrington, 1897.
Source Firkin
The perfect pattern for all your blogs about type, or type-related matters.
Source Atle Mo
Found on the ground in french cafe in kunming, Yunnan, china
Source Rejon
Prismatic Abstract Line Art Pattern Background
Source GDJ
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
Source Firkin
Seamless , tileable CC-0 texture. Created by my own, feel free to use wherever you want!
Source Linolafett
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
An attempt for cleaning up the original image in a few steps.
Source Lazur URH
Colour version of the original pattern inspired by the front cover of 'Old and New Paris', Henry Edwards, 1894.
Source Firkin
Dark, square, clean and tidy. What more can you ask for?
Source Jaromír Kavan
Thin lines, noise and texture creates this crisp dark denim pattern.
Source Marco Slooten
A seamless pattern created from a square tile. To get the tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Inspired by this, I came up with this pattern. Madness!
Source Atle Mo
A tile-able background for websites with paper-like texture and a grid pattern layered on top of it.
Source V. Hartikainen
Vertical lines with a bumpy, yet crisp, feel to it.
Source Raasa