From a drawing in 'Cassell's Library of English Literature', Henry Morley, 1883.
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern with a unit cell drawn as a bitmap in Paint.net and vectorized in Vector Magic.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Less Black than we're painted', James Payn, 1884.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Curved Diamond Pattern 5 No Background
Source GDJ
This light blue background pattern is quite pleasing to the eye, it consists of a tiny rough grid pattern, which is seamless by design. That's it, if you like the color, you can use this seamless pattern in a web design without making any further modifications to it.
Source V. Hartikainen
More Japanese-inspired patterns, Gold Scales this time.
Source Josh Green
This one looks like a cork panel. Feel free to use it as a tiled background on your blog or website.
Source V. Hartikainen
Submitted by DomainsInfo – wtf, right? But hey, a free pattern.
Source DomainsInfo
An abstract Background pattern of purple twisty patterns.
Source TikiGiki
Prismatic Hypnotic Pattern 2 No Background
Source GDJ
This one is super crisp at 2X. Lined paper with some dust and scratches.
Source HQvectors
Here's a brown background pattern with subtle stripes. I hope you'll like the color. If not, feel free to change it using an image editor, if you know how of course. Personally, I'm using GIMP to create these backgrounds.
Source V. Hartikainen
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
The following free background pattern has glossy diagonal stripes as a texture to it, and it's colored in a light blue gray color. This background pattern is suitable for using in web design or any other graphic design projects. This applies to all background patterns here.
Source V. Hartikainen
A seamless web background with texture of aged grid paper.
Source V. Hartikainen