Remixed from a design found in 'History of the Virginia Company of London; with letters to and from the first Colony, never before printed', Edward Neill, 1869.
Source Firkin
A background pattern inspired by designs seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857.
Source Firkin
An alternative colour scheme for the original background.
Source Firkin
A seamlessly repeating background pattern of wood. The image is procedurally generated, and, I think, it's turned out quite well.
Source V. Hartikainen
Seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
A light brushed aluminum pattern for your pleasure.
Source Tim Ward
The name is totally random, but hey, it sounds good.
Source Atle Mo
A light brushed aluminum pattern for your pleasure.
Source Tim Ward
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Number 5 in a series of 5 beautiful patterns. Can be found in colors on the submitter’s website.
Source Janos Koos
You can never get enough of these tiny pixel patterns with sharp lines.
Source Designova
Sort of like the Photoshop transparent background, but better!
Source Alex Parker
A set of paper filters. The base texture is generated the same way, only the compositing mode is varied.
Source Lazur URH
Sharp diamond pattern. A small 24x18px tile.
Source Tom Neal
White circles connecting on a light gray background.
Source Mark Collins
Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background No Black
Source GDJ
From a drawing in 'Codogno e il suo territorio nella cronaca e nella storia'', Gio and Giarella Cairo, 1897.
Source Firkin
A very slick dark rubber grip pattern, sort of like the grip on a camera.
Source Sinisha
A seamless pattern with green and yellow diagonal lines on top of a white dotted background.
Source V. Hartikainen