From a drawing in 'Bond Slaves. The story of a struggle.', Isabella Varley, 1893.
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern formed from a square tile. To get the tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
A seamless pale yellow paper background with a pattern of animal tracks.
Source V. Hartikainen
From a drawing in 'Real Sailor-Songs', John Ashton, 1891.
Source Firkin
Colour version of a pattern that came out of playing with the 'light rays' plug-in for Paint.net
Source Firkin
Prismatic Geometric Pattern Background No Black
Source GDJ
Stefan is hard at work, this time with a funky pattern of squares.
Source Stefan Aleksić
From a drawing in 'The Quiver of Love', Walter Crane, 1876
Source Firkin
Small dots with minor circles spread across to form a nice mosaic.
Source John Burks
Bright gray tones with a hint of some metal surface.
Source Hendrik Lammers
CC0 and a seamless pattern from a tile drawn in Paint.net .
Source SliverKnight
A dark metallic background with a pattern of stamped dots. Here's a dark "metallic" background pattern for you.
Source V. Hartikainen