From a drawing in 'Navigations de Alouys de Cademoste.-La Navigation du Capitaine Pierre Sintre', Alvise da ca da Mosto, 1895.
Source Firkin
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
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
One more sharp little tile for you. Subtle circles this time.
Source Blunia
The starting point for this was a texture drawn with the 'Radial Colors' plug-in in Paint.net.
Source Firkin
Submitted as a black pattern, I made it light and a few steps more subtle.
Source Andy
Free tiled background with colorful stripes and white splatter.
Source V. Hartikainen
A slightly grainy paper pattern with small horizontal and vertical strokes.
Source Atle Mo
From a drawing in 'Cowdray: the history of a great English House', Julia Roundell, 1884.
Source Firkin
Derived from a JPG that was uploaded to Pixabay by ractapopulous
Source Firkin
Old China with a modern twist, take two.
Source Adam Charlts
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
This yellow background consists of a pattern of glossy gold buttons arranged in polka dot style on a seamless texture. Here's a pale yellow background pattern. Feel free to use it for your needs!
Source V. Hartikainen
Nicely executed tiling for an interesting pattern.
Source Ignasi Àvila Padró
A re-make of the Gradient Squares pattern.
Source Dimitar Karaytchev
Used correctly, this could be nice. Used in a bad way, all hell will break loose.
Source Atle Mo
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern from a tile drawn in Paint.net and vectorised in Vector Magic
Source Firkin
You know you love wood patterns, so here’s one more.
Source Richard Tabor
Tweed is back in style – you heard it here first. Also, the @2X version here is great!
Source Simon Leo