From a drawing in 'Friend or Fortune? The story of a strange year', Robert Overton, 1897.
Source Firkin
A repeating background with dark brown stone-like texture and abstract pattern that looks like tree trunks.
Source V. Hartikainen
Actually remixed from a pattern on Pixabay. But then noticed a very similar one on Openclipart.org uploaded by btj51q2.
Source Firkin
From a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
A background pattern inspired by designs seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857.
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The rectangular tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
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From a drawing in 'Heroes of North African Discovery', Nancy Meugens, 1894.
Source Firkin
Redrawn based on a drawing in 'По Сѣверо-Западу Россіи' Konstantin Sluchevsky, 1897.
Source Firkin
Number five from the same submitter, makes my job easy.
Source Dima Shiper
To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Greyscale version of a pattern that came out of playing with the 'light rays' plug-in for Paint.net
Source Firkin
A seamless texture of worn out "cardboard".
Source V. Hartikainen
A seamless pattern recreated from an image on Pixabay. It is reminiscent of parquet flooring and is formed from a square tile, which can be recovered in Inkscape by selecting the ungrouped rectangle and using shift-alt-I together.
Source Firkin
A simple circle. That’s all it takes. This one is even transparent, for those who like that.
Source Saqib
Remixed from a drawing in 'In an Enchanted Island', William Mallock, 1892.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Geometric Pattern Background
Source GDJ
Seamless , tileable CC-0 texture. Created by my own, feel free to use wherever you want!
Source Linolafett
Your eyes can trip a bit from looking at this – use it wisely.
Source Michal Chovanec
Here's a new paper-like background for free use on personal and commercial projects (this applies to all background patterns here).
Source V. Hartikainen
Seamless , tileable CC-0 texture. Created by my own, feel free to use wherever you want!
Source Linolafett
A lovely light gray pattern with stripes and a dash of noise.
Source V. Hartikainen
A seamless texture of black leather. I think it will look best when used in headers, footers or sidebars.
Source V. Hartikainen
I’m guessing this is related to the Sony Vaio? It’s a nice pattern no matter where it’s from.
Source Zigzain