From a drawing in 'Friend or Fortune? The story of a strange year', Robert Overton, 1897.
Source Firkin
Light and tiny, just the way you like it.
Source Rohit Arun Rao
Same classic 45-degree pattern, dark version.
Source Luke McDonald
Abstract Tiled Background Extended 10
Source GDJ
Derived from a JPG that was uploaded to Pixabay by ractapopulous
Source Firkin
A seamless background pattern with impressed gray dots.
Source V. Hartikainen
An aged paper background tile with smeared and pressed text.
Source V. Hartikainen
Number 5 in a series of 5 beautiful patterns. Can be found in colors on the submitter’s website.
Source Janos Koos
A pattern formed from a photograph of a 16th century ceramic tile.
Source Firkin
Found on the ground in french cafe in kunming, Yunnan, china
Source Rejon
A heavy hitter at 400x400px, but lovely still.
Source Breezi
A nice one indeed, but I have a feeling we have it already? If you spot a copy, let me know on Twitter.
Source Graphiste
Prismatic Chevrons Pattern 5 With Background
Source GDJ
This was formed by distorting an image of a background on Pixabay.
Source Firkin
A gray background pattern with a texture of textile. Suits perfectly for web design.
Source V. Hartikainen
A free grid paper background pattern for using on web sites.
Source V. Hartikainen
A free black metallic background pattern. Here's a new pattern I made that looks metallic.
Source V. Hartikainen
Prismatic Geometric Tessellation Pattern 3 No Background
Source GDJ
To get the tile this is made up from select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Just the symbols of the signs of the zodiac distributed in a chequer board-like pattern
Source Firkin
Dark wooden pattern, given the subtle treatment. based on texture from Cloaks.
The edges of all the red objects line up either vertically or horizontally, but it doesn't appear so. Made from a square tile that can be got by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin