Remixed from a drawing in 'A Girl in Ten Thousand', Elizabeth Meade, 1896.
Source Firkin
Light and tiny, just the way you like it.
Source Rohit Arun Rao
A seamless background drawn in Paint.net and vectorised with Vector Magic. The starting point was a photograph of drinking straws from Pixabay.
Source Firkin
An alternative colour scheme for the original background.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Line and form', Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
Uses spirals from Pixabay. To get the basic tile select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
A seamless texture of worn out "cardboard".
Source V. Hartikainen
Remixed from a drawing in 'Maidenhood; or, the Verge of the Stream', Laura Jewry, 1876.
Source Firkin
Same as gray sand but lighter. A sandy pattern with small light dots, and some angled strokes.
Source Atle Mo
Little x’es, noise and all the stuff you like. Dark like a Monday, with a hint of blue.
Source Tom McArdle
This seamless pattern consists of a blue grid on a yellow background.
Source V. Hartikainen
To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i
Source Firkin
Like the name suggests, this background image consists of a pattern of dark bricks. It may be an option for you, if you are looking for something that looks like a brick wall for use as a background on web pages. It's not a masterpiece, but looks pretty nice when is tiled.
Source V. Hartikainen
The act or state of corrugating or of being corrugated, a wrinkle; fold; furrow; ridge.
Source Anna Litvinuk
A repeating background for websites with a texture of black groove stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
Hey, you never know when you’ll need a bird pattern, right?
Source Pete Fecteau
Background Wall, Art Abstract, Star Well & CC0 texture.
Source Ractapopulous
Geometric lines are always hot, and this pattern is no exception.
Source Listvetra
Submitted as a black pattern, I made it light and a few steps more subtle.
Source Andy
An orange vertically striped background pattern. Feel free to download and use this orange background pattern, for example, on the web). It resembles a wallpaper with vertical stripes or something similar to it.
Source V. Hartikainen
Number five from the same submitter, makes my job easy.
Source Dima Shiper