Remixed from a drawing in 'In an Enchanted Island', William Mallock, 1892.
Source Firkin
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 bit of scratched up grayness. Always good.
Source Dmitry
Formed by distorting a JPG from PublicDomainPictures
Source Firkin
If you’re sick of the fancy 3D, grunge and noisy patterns, take a look at this flat 2D brick wall.
Source Listvetra
A seamless background texture of old cardboard.
Source V. Hartikainen
Design drawn in Paint.net, vectorised using Vector Magic and finished in Inkscape.
Source Firkin
We have some linen patterns here, but none that are stressed. Until now.
Source Jordan Pittman
Pattern produced in Paint.net using the Vibrato plug-in.
Source Firkin
Can never have too many knitting patterns, especially as nice as this.
Source Victoria Spahn
Colored maple leaves scattered on a surface. This is tileable, so it can be used as a background or wallpaper.
Source Eady
From a drawing in 'Two Women in the Klondike', Mary Hitchcock, 1899.
Source Firkin
A seamless background pattern with impressed gray dots.
Source V. Hartikainen
A pale orange background pattern with glossy groove stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
A playful triangle pattern with different shades of gray.
Source Dimitrie Hoekstra
Colour version of the original seamless pattern.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a drawing in 'Line and form", Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
One of the few full-color patterns here, but this one was just too good to pass up.
Source Alexey Usoltsev
Remixed from a drawing in 'Some account of the Worshipful Company of Ironmongers', John Nicholl, 1866.
Source Firkin
Seamless pattern the tile for which can be had by using shift-alt-I on the selected rectangle in Inkscape.
Source Firkin
This one needs to be used in small areas; you can see it repeat.
Source Luca
To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a PNG that was uploaded to Pixabay by k_jprather
Source Firkin
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin