Remixed from a drawing in 'Maidenhood; or, the Verge of the Stream', Laura Jewry, 1876.
Source Firkin
Seamless SVG vector and JPG backgrounds with faded diagonal stripes. The colors are editable.
Source V. Hartikainen
Sharp pixel pattern looking like some sort of fabric.
Source Dmitry
Alternative colour scheme. Not a pattern for fabrics, but one produced from a jpg of a stack of fabric items that was posted on Pixabay. The tile that this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
This one is amazing, truly original. Go use it!
Source Viahorizon
Remixed from a design seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857. The tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
The image depicts a seamless pattern which includes hexagonally-aligned gourds with BG in light-brown.
Source Yamachem
Remixed from a drawing in 'A Child of the Age', Francis Adams, 1894.
Source Firkin
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
Sort of like the Photoshop transparent background, but better!
Source Alex Parker
One more in the line of patterns inspired by Japanese/Asian styles. Smooth.
Source Kim Ruddock
Same as Silver Scales, but in black. Turn your site into a dragon with this great scale pattern.
Source Alex Parker
An abstract pale yellow paper-like background with stains colored in yellow and green.
Source V. Hartikainen
From a drawing in 'Chambéry à la fin du XIVe siècle', Timoleon Chapperon, 1863.
Source Firkin
This one resembles a black concrete wall when is tiled. It should look great, at least with dark website themes.
Source V. Hartikainen
A seamless pattern from a tile drawn in Paint.net and vectorised in Vector Magic
Source Firkin
Derived from a drawing in 'The Murmur of the Shells', Samuel Cowen, 1879.
Source Firkin
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
If you don’t like cream and pixels, you’re in the wrong place.
Source Mizanur Rahman
Seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be extracted by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Formed by distorting the inside front cover of 'Diversæ insectarum volatilium : icones ad vivum accuratissmè depictæ per celeberrimum pictorem', Jacob Hoefnagel, 1630.
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin