From a drawing in 'Studies for Stories', Jean Ingelow, 1864.
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Same as Silver Scales, but in black. Turn your site into a dragon with this great scale pattern.
Source Alex Parker
From drawing in 'Musings in Maoriland', Thomas Bracken, 1890.
Source Firkin
A pattern formed from repeated instances of corner decoration 8. To get the basic tile select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
One more from Badhon, sharp horizontal lines making an embossed paper feeling.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
A grid of squares with green colours. Since the colours are randomly distributed it is automatically seamless.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a drawing that was uploaded to Pixabay by captenpub.
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a drawing in 'A Girl in Ten Thousand', Elizabeth Meade, 1896.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Resa i Afrika, genom Angola, Ovampo och Damaraland', P. Moller, 1899.
Source Firkin
Free tiled background with colorful stripes and white splatter.
Source V. Hartikainen
A dark background pattern/texture of a dimpled metal plate.
Source V. Hartikainen
As simple and subtle as it gets. But sometimes that’s just what you want.
Source Designova
Zero CC tileable ground cracked, crackled, texture, made by me.
Source Sojan Janso
Looks like a technical drawing board: small squares forming a nice grid.
Source We Are Pixel8
Bit of a strange name on this one, but still nice. Tiny gray square things.
Source Carlos Valdez
Remixed from a design seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857. The tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a drawing in 'A Child of the Age', Francis Adams, 1894.
Source Firkin
The image depicts a seamless pattern of a fishnet with a plenty of fish.It may be a lucky charm for fishermen.
Source Yamachem
Adapted heavily from a JPG that was uploaded to Pixabay by Viscious-Speed.
Source Firkin
The green fibers pattern will work very well in grayscale as well.
Source Matteo Di Capua
Seamless , tileable CC-0 texture. Created by my own, feel free to use wherever you want!
Source Linolafett
A seamless marble-like texture colored in light blue.
Source V. Hartikainen