From a drawing in 'A Life Interest', Mrs Alexander, 1888.
Source Firkin
Light square grid pattern, great for a “DIY projects” sort of website, maybe?
Source Rafael Almeida
Remixed from a design seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857.
Source Firkin
A pattern formed from a squared tile. The tile can be accessed in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Submitted in a cream color, but you know how I like it.
Source Devin Holmes
Remixed from a drawing in 'Hungary. A guide book. By several authors', 1890.
Source Firkin
It’s an egg, in the form of a pattern. This really is 2012.
Source Paul Phönixweiß
Adapted heavily from a JPG that was uploaded to Pixabay by Viscious-Speed.
Source Firkin
A free grid paper background pattern for using on web sites.
Source V. Hartikainen
A repeating background for websites with a texture of black groove stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
A version without colours blended together to give a different look.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Resa i Afrika, genom Angola, Ovampo och Damaraland', P. Moller, 1899.
Source Firkin
Background Wall, Art Abstract, Star Well & CC0 texture.
Source Ractapopulous
From a drawing in 'Kingsdene', Maria Fetherstonehaugh, 1878.
Source Firkin
This is sort of fresh, but still feels a bit old school.
Source Martuchox
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
ZeroCC tileable wood boards texture, photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Prismatic Polka Dots Mark II 3 No Background
Source GDJ
An emulated “transparent” background pattern, like that of all kinds of computer graphics software.
Source AdamStanislav
This is so subtle I hope you can see it! Tweak at will.
Source Alexandre Naud
A seamless background pattern of dark brown wood planks.
Source V. Hartikainen
Remixed from a drawing in 'Works. Popular edition', John Ruskin, 1886.
Source Firkin
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
There are quite a few grid patterns, but this one is a super tiny grid with some dust for good measure.
Source Dominik Kiss
Formed from a tile based on a drawing from 'Viaggi d'un artista nell'America Meridionale', Guido Boggiani, 1895.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 3 No Black
Source GDJ
A seamless striped fabric-like texture colored in a dark reddish brown color.
Source V. Hartikainen
White handmade paper pattern with small bumps.
Source Marquis