From a drawing in 'Bond Slaves. The story of a struggle.', Isabella Varley, 1893.
Source Firkin
Formed by distorting the inside front cover of 'Diversæ insectarum volatilium : icones ad vivum accuratissmè depictæ per celeberrimum pictorem', Jacob Hoefnagel, 1630.
Source Firkin
Semi-light fabric pattern made out of random pixels in shades of gray.
Source Atle Mo
Formed by heavily distorting part of a an image of a fish uploaded to Pixabay by GLady
Source Firkin
A playful triangle pattern with different shades of gray.
Source Dimitrie Hoekstra
Seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern the starting point for which was a 'colour modulo' texture in Paint.net.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a drawing in 'Line and form", Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
An emulated “transparent” background pattern, like that of all kinds of computer graphics software.
Source AdamStanislav
CC0 and a seamless pattern from a tile drawn in Paint.net .
Source SliverKnight
Colourful background achieved with gradient fills.
Source Firkin
There are many carbon patterns, but this one is tiny.
Source Designova
Retro Circles Background 7 No Black
Source GDJ
A seamless gray background texture suitable for use on websites. To me, it has the look of stone. Feel free to modify it to meet your needs (by making it a bit lighter or darker, for example).
Source V. Hartikainen
Can never have too many knitting patterns, especially as nice as this.
Source Victoria Spahn
I know there is one here already, but this is sexy!
Source Gjermund Gustavsen
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
From a design in 'Storia del Palazzo Vecchio in Firenze', Aurelio Gotti, 1889.
Source Firkin
A beautiful dark padded pattern, like an old classic sofa.
Source Chris Baldie
Paper pattern with small dust particles and 45-degree strokes.
Source Atle Mo
This is a grid, only it’s noisy. You know. Reminds you of those printed grids you draw on.
Source Vectorpile
Awesome name, great pattern. Who does not love space?
Source Nick Batchelor
This tiled background comes in red and consists of tiles that look like gemstones. It is more for blogs or social profiles, I think.
Source V. Hartikainen
Light gray version of the Binding pattern that looks a bit like fabric.
Source Newbury
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
A seamless background drawn in Paint.net and vectorised with Vector Magic. The starting point was a photograph of drinking straws from Pixabay.
Source Firkin
Remixed from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by Pixeline
Source Firkin
A background pattern with blue on white vertical stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen