From a drawing in 'Studies for Stories', Jean Ingelow, 1864.
Source Firkin
A repeating background with wood/straw like texture.
Source V. Hartikainen
A seamless pattern from a tile made from a jpg on Pixabay. To get the tile select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
A seamless background drawn in Paint.net and vectorised with Vector Magic. The starting point was a photograph of drinking straws from Pixabay.
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern formed from cross 4. To get the original tile select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Zero CC tileable yellow craft paper; scanned and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
From a drawing in 'Az Osztrák-Magyar Monarchia irásban és képben', 1885.
Source Firkin
The square tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Light honeycomb pattern made up of the classic hexagon shape.
Source Federica Pelzel
This one takes you back to math class. Classic mathematic board underlay.
Source Josh Green
Dead simple but beautiful horizontal line pattern.
Source Fabian Schultz
Remixed from a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892. The tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using 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
Prismatic Hexagonalist Pattern No Background
Source GDJ
Textured Red Brown Plastic, Free Background Pattern. Although there's already enough plastic in our lives, let's bring it to the web too.)
Source V. Hartikainen
This light background pattern has a texture of "frozen" surface with diagonal stripes. Here's an yet another addition to the collection of free website backgrounds.
Source V. Hartikainen
8 by 8 pixels, and just what the title says.
Source pixilated
Got some felt in my mailbox today, so I scanned it for you to use.
Source Atle Mo
Remixed from a drawing in 'Maidenhood; or, the Verge of the Stream', Laura Jewry, 1876.
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i
Source Firkin
Alternative colour scheme for the original floral pattern.
Source Firkin
From a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
A simple circle. That’s all it takes. This one is even transparent, for those who like that.
Source Saqib
If you’re sick of the fancy 3D, grunge and noisy patterns, take a look at this flat 2D brick wall.
Source Listvetra