From a drawing in 'Jardyne's Wife', Charles Wills, 1891.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Floral Pattern 3 Variation 3 No Background
Source GDJ
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
On a large canvas you can see it tiling, but used on smaller areas, it’s beautiful.
Source Paul Phönixweiß
The tile can be had by using shift+alt+i on the selected rectangle in Inkscape
Source Firkin
A light gray fabric pattern with faded vertical stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
The perfect pattern for all your blogs about type, or type-related matters.
Source Atle Mo
Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 2
Source GDJ
To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern with wide vertical stripes colored in pale yellow.
Source V. Hartikainen
Abstract Ellipses Background Grayscale
Source GDJ
Not even 1kb, but very stylish. Gray thin lines.
Source Struck Axiom
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
This is the third pattern called Dark Denim, but hey, we all love them!
Source Brandon Jacoby
One more brick pattern. A bit more depth to this one.
Source Benjamin Ward
If you want png files of this u can download them here : viscious-speed.deviantart.com/gallery/27635117
Source Viscious-Speed
A large pattern with funky shapes and form. An original. Sort of origami-ish.
Source Luuk van Baars
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
A seamlessly tileable pink background texture.
Source V. Hartikainen
Black version of a pattern that came out of playing with the 'light rays' plug-in for Paint.net
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Line and form', Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
I love these crisp, tiny, super subtle patterns.
Source Badhon Ebrahim