From a drawing in 'Studies for Stories', Jean Ingelow, 1864.
Source Firkin
Background formed from the original with an emboss effect
Source GDJ
Crossing lines with a subtle emboss effect on a dark background.
Source Stefan Aleksić
A seamless pattern the unit cell for which can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Seamless , tileable CC-0 texture. Created by my own, feel free to use wherever you want!
Source Linolafett
You know you can’t get enough of these linen-fabric-y patterns.
Source James Basoo
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 simple example on using clones. You can generate a nice base for a pattern fill quickly with it.
Source Lazur URH
It’s a hole, in a pattern. On your website. Dig it!
Source Josh Green
A repeating gloomy background image. This one consists of a pattern of black chains layered on top of a dark textured background.
Source V. Hartikainen
This was formed by distorting an image of a background on Pixabay.
Source Firkin