From drawing in 'Musings in Maoriland', Thomas Bracken, 1890.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Background formed from the original with an emboss effect
Source GDJ
Free tiled background with colorful stripes and white splatter.
Source V. Hartikainen
If you want png files of this u can download them here : viscious-speed.deviantart.com/gallery/27635117
Source Viscious-Speed
A repeating background of beige (or is it more vanilla yellow) textured stripes. One more background with stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
Abstract Ellipses Background Grayscale
Source GDJ
A subtle shadowed checkered pattern. Increase the lightness for even more subtle sexiness.
Source Josh Green
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
A very slick dark rubber grip pattern, sort of like the grip on a camera.
Source Sinisha
The tile this is formed from can be retrieved in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
It’s a hole, in a pattern. On your website. Dig it!
Source Josh Green
Alternative colour scheme. Not a pattern for fabrics, but one produced from a jpg of a stack of fabric items that was posted on Pixabay. The tile that this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Zero CC tileable moss or lichen covered stone texture, edited from pixabay. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
The image depicts a seamless pattern of Japanese Edo pattern called "kikkou-matsu" or "亀甲松" meaning " tortoiseshell-pinetree".The real pinetree is like this: https://jp.pinterest.com/pin/500744052301065077/
Source Yamachem
Some rectangles, a bit of dust and grunge, plus a hint of concrete.
Source Atle Mo
A pale olive green background with a seamless texture.
Source V. Hartikainen
Remixed from a design on Pixabay. To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i
Source Firkin
Kaleidoscope Prismatic Abstract No Background
Source GDJ
In the spirit of WWDC 2011, here is a dark iOS inspired linen pattern.
Source Atle Mo
A bit like smudged paint or some sort of steel, here is scribble light.
Source Tegan Male
A seamless canvas texture for using as background on websites. Colored in pale tones of brown.
Source V. Hartikainen
A background pattern with green vertical stripes. A new striped background pattern. This time a green one.
Source V. Hartikainen
From a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
Source Firkin