From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
The image depicts a seamless pattern of a fishnet with a plenty of fish.It may be a lucky charm for fishermen.
Source Yamachem
Simple gray checkered lines, in light tones.
Source Radosław Rzepecki
With a name this awesome, how can I go wrong?
Source Nikolay Boltachev
Remixed from a drawing in 'The Canadian horticulturist', 1892
Source Firkin
A web texture of brown canvas. Will look great, when used in dark web designs.
Source V. Hartikainen
A very dark asfalt pattern based off of a photo taken with my iPhone.
Source Atle Mo
The rectangular tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using 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
Here's a new paper-like background for free use on personal and commercial projects (this applies to all background patterns here).
Source V. Hartikainen
Dark and hard, just the way we like it. Embossed triangles makes a nice pattern.
Source Ivan Ginev
Zero CC tileable hard cover green book, scanned and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
From a drawing in 'Studies for Stories', Jean Ingelow, 1864.
Source Firkin
Made by distorting a simple pattern using the 'sin waves' plugin for Paint.net and vectorising in Vector Magic
Source Firkin
Prismatic Polka Dots 3 No Background
Source GDJ
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
Background Wall, Art Abstract, Block Well & CC0 texture.
Source Ractapopulous
Adapted from a drawing in 'Line and form', Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Redrawn based on a drawing in 'По Сѣверо-Западу Россіи' Konstantin Sluchevsky, 1897.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Friend or Fortune? The story of a strange year', Robert Overton, 1897.
Source Firkin
Zero CC bark from fur tree tileable texture, photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Remixed from a design seen on Pixabay. The basic tile can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin