From a drawing in 'In an Enchanted Island', William Mallock, 1892.
Source Firkin
I love these crisp, tiny, super subtle patterns.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
From a drawing in 'Cowdray: the history of a great English House', Julia Roundell, 1884.
Source Firkin
A lovely light gray pattern with stripes and a dash of noise.
Source V. Hartikainen
A bit like smudged paint or some sort of steel, here is scribble light.
Source Tegan Male
A brown metallic grid pattern layered on top of a dark fabric texture. It should look great when using as a tiled background on web pages, especially blogs.
Source V. Hartikainen
This background pattern contains worn out colorful stripes as a texture.
Source V. Hartikainen
As simple and subtle as it gets. But sometimes that’s just what you want.
Source Designova
Sweet and subtle white plaster with hints of noise and grunge.
Source Phil Maurer
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
From a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Two Women in the Klondike', Mary Hitchcock, 1899.
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern of leopard skin. It should look nice as a background element on web pages.
Source V. Hartikainen
A seamless chequerboard pattern formed from a tile that can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i. Alternative colour scheme.
Source Firkin
Based on an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by devanath
Source Firkin
The name alone is awesome, but so is this sweet dark pattern.
Source Federica Pelzel
A series of 5 patterns. That’s what the P stands for, if you didn’t guess it.
Source Dima Shiper
A seamless pattern formed from a square tile. To get the tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
The rectangular tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
You guessed it – looks a bit like cloth.
Source Peax Webdesign
Recreated from a pattern found in 'Az Osztrák-Magyar Monarchia irásban és képben', 1882. To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Curved Diamond Pattern 5 No Background
Source GDJ