From a drawing in 'Real Sailor-Songs', John Ashton, 1891.
Source Firkin
If you need a green background for your blog/website, try this one. Remember that Green Striped Background is seamlessly tileable.
Source V. Hartikainen
Not the most creative name, but it’s a good all-purpose light background.
Source Dmitry
A pattern drawn in Paint.net and vectorized in Inkscape.
Source Firkin
A re-make of the Gradient Squares pattern.
Source Dimitar Karaytchev
A seamless background tile of aged paper with shabby look.
Source V. Hartikainen
This is the remix of "blue wave-seigaiha".The image depicts a seamless pattern of the front upper part of Japanese five yen coin which is used currently.This design represents a rice with ripe golden ears.
Source Yamachem
The image is a design of blue glass.How about using it as background image?
Source Yamachem
On a large canvas you can see it tiling, but used on smaller areas, it’s beautiful.
Source Paul Phönixweiß
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
A seamlessly tileable pink background texture.
Source V. Hartikainen
Seamless , tileable CC-0 texture. Created by my own, feel free to use wherever you want!
Source Linolafett
It’s okay to be square! A nice light gray pattern with random squares.
Source Waseem Dahman
Light gray version of the Binding pattern that looks a bit like fabric.
Source Newbury
Used the 6th circle pattern designed by Viscious-Speed to create a print that can be used for card making or scrapbooking. Save as a PDF file for the best printing option.
Source Lovinglf
Fix and cc0 to get the tile this is based on.
Source SliverKnight
From a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern formed from a tile made from ornament 22. To get the tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
From a design found in 'History of the Virginia Company of London; with letters to and from the first Colony, never before printed', Edward Neill, 1869.
Source Firkin
Hexagonal dark 3D pattern. What more can you ask for?
Source Norbert Levajsics
A seamless pattern of dark bricks. Maybe it's not very realistic, but it looks good in my opinion.
Source V. Hartikainen