From a drawing in 'Studies for Stories', Jean Ingelow, 1864.
Source Firkin
An abstract texture of water. It's not perfect, but will do. You may download if you like it.
Source V. Hartikainen
Prismatic Geometric Tessellation Pattern No Background
Source GDJ
Luxurious looking pattern (for a T-shirt maybe?) with a hint of green.
Source Simon Meek
A lot of people like the icon patterns, so here’s one for your restaurant blog.
Source Andrijana Jarnjak
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Colour version of the original pattern.
Source Firkin
Here's an yet another seamless note paper texture for use as a background on websites.
Source V. Hartikainen
From a drawing in 'Chambéry à la fin du XIVe siècle', Timoleon Chapperon, 1863.
Source Firkin
Derived from a corner decoration itself found as a jpg on Pixabay.
Source Firkin
A background formed from an image of an old tile on the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art website. To get the base tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Different from the original in being a simple tile stored as a pattern definition, rather than numerous repeated objects. Hence easy and quick to give this pattern to objects of different shapes. To get the tile in Inkscape, select the rectangle and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
A free tileable background colored in off-white (antique white) color.
Source V. Hartikainen
Never out of fashion and so much hotter than the 45º everyone knows, here is a sweet 60º line pattern.
Source Atle Mo
Seamless tile drawn in Paint.net and vectorised in Vector Magic.
Source Firkin
A seamless gray background texture suitable for use on websites. To me, it has the look of stone. Feel free to modify it to meet your needs (by making it a bit lighter or darker, for example).
Source V. Hartikainen
Sort of like the back of a wooden board. Light, subtle, and stylish, just the way we like it!
Source Nikolalek
From a drawing in 'Resa i Afrika, genom Angola, Ovampo och Damaraland', P. Moller, 1899.
Source Firkin
A light background pattern with diagonal stripes. Here's a simple light striped background for you.
Source V. Hartikainen
From a drawing in 'Bond Slaves. The story of a struggle.', Isabella Varley, 1893.
Source Firkin
Tweed is back in style – you heard it here first. Also, the @2X version here is great!
Source Simon Leo
A new one called white wall, not by me this time.
Source Yuji Honzawa
You can never get enough of these tiny pixel patterns with sharp lines.
Source Designova