From a drawing in 'Real Sailor-Songs', John Ashton, 1891.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Abstract Line Art Pattern Background 2
Source GDJ
Prismatic Geometric Pattern Background
Source GDJ
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
The tile this is based on can be retrieved by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is formed from select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
A free seamless background image with abstract texture of green "curtain".
Source V. Hartikainen
A seamless pattern the unit cell for which can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
You don’t see many mid-tone patterns here, but this one is nice.
Source Joel Klein
Seamless , tileable CC-0 texture. Created by my own, feel free to use wherever you want!
Source Linolafett
One can never have too few rice paper patterns, so here is one more.
Source Atle Mo
A lovely light gray pattern with stripes and a dash of noise.
Source V. Hartikainen
From a drawing in 'Les Chroniqueurs de l'Histoire de France depuis les origines jusqu'au XVIe siècle', Henriette Witt, 1884.
Source Firkin
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
From a drawing in 'Cowdray: the history of a great English House', Julia Roundell, 1884.
Source Firkin
Drawn in Paint.net and vectorised in Vector Magic
Source Firkin
Little x’es, noise and all the stuff you like. Dark like a Monday, with a hint of blue.
Source Tom McArdle
To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
A bit like some carbon, or knitted netting if you will.
Source Anna Litvinuk
Prismatic Abstract Background Design
Source GDJ
A seamless pattern the starting point for which was a 'rainbow twist' texture in Paint.net.
Source Firkin
Sharp pixel pattern looking like some sort of fabric.
Source Dmitry
Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 5 No Black
Source GDJ
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
Farmer could be some sort of fabric pattern, with a hint of green.
Source Fabian Schultz
Same classic 45-degree pattern, dark version.
Source Luke McDonald