From a drawing in 'Maidenhood; or, the Verge of the Stream', Laura Jewry, 1876.
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern based on a square tile that can be retrieved in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Prose and Verse ', William Linton, 1836.
Source Firkin
Sharp pixel pattern looking like some sort of fabric.
Source Dmitry
This is a grid, only it’s noisy. You know. Reminds you of those printed grids you draw on.
Source Vectorpile
Used in small doses, this could be a nice subtle pattern. Used on a large surface, it’s dirty!
Source Paul Reulat
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Zero CC tileable hard cover cells, skin like, book texture. 4K, Scanned and made by me CC0
Source Sojan Janso
A very slick dark rubber grip pattern, sort of like the grip on a camera.
Source Sinisha
This is a hot one. Small, sharp and unique.
Source GraphicsWall
Can’t believe we don’t have this in the collection already! Slick woven pattern with crisp details.
Source Max Rudberg
Formed by distorting a JPG from PublicDomainPictures
Source Firkin
Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 5
Source GDJ
Green Web Background, Seamless tile.
Source V. Hartikainen
Prismatic Polka Dots 3 No Background
Source GDJ
A seamless design of flowers remixed from a jpg on Pixabay by Prawny.
Source Firkin
Classic 45-degree pattern, light version.
Source Luke McDonald
Light honeycomb pattern made up of the classic hexagon shape.
Source Federica Pelzel
This one needs to be used in small areas; you can see it repeat.
Source Luca
To get the tile this is formed from select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
An emulated “transparent” background pattern, like that of all kinds of computer graphics software.
Source AdamStanislav
From a drawing in 'Cassell's Library of English Literature', Henry Morley, 1883.
Source Firkin
Number 4 in a series of 5 beautiful patterns. Can be found in colors on the submitter’s website.
Source Janos Koos
From a drawing in 'A Life Interest', Mrs Alexander, 1888.
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
Design drawn in Paint.net, vectorised using Vector Magic and finished in Inkscape.
Source Firkin
From a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin