A simple but elegant classic. Every collection needs one of these.
Source Christopher Burton
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
Remixed from an image on Pixabay uploaded by Prawny
Source Firkin
Embossed lines and squares with subtle highlights.
Source Alex Parker
This one could be the shirt of a golf player. Angled lines in different thicknesses.
Source Olivier Pineda
This one needs to be used in small areas; you can see it repeat.
Source Luca
Number 1 in a series of 5 beautiful patterns. Can be found in colors on the submitter’s website.
Source Janos Koos
Drawn in Paint.net using the kaleidoscope plug-in and vectorised.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a design seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857. The tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
The act or state of corrugating or of being corrugated, a wrinkle; fold; furrow; ridge.
Source Anna Litvinuk
From a drawing in 'Az Osztrák-Magyar Monarchia irásban és képben', 1885.
Source Firkin
Clean and crisp lines all over the place. Wrap it up with this one.
Source Dax Kieran
A background formed from an image of an old tile on the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art website. To get the base tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
This background pattern has futuristic look. So, maybe it could be used on websites or blogs dedicated to video games?!
Source V. Hartikainen
Derived from elements found in a floral ornament drawing on Pixabay.
Source Firkin
This is so subtle I hope you can see it! Tweak at will.
Source Alexandre Naud
This is lovely, just the right amount of subtle noise, lines and textures.
Source Richard Tabor
From a drawing in 'Artists and Arabs', Henry Blackburn, 1868.
Source Firkin
Zero CC tileable Crackled Cement (streaks) texture, photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
From a drawing in 'An Old Maid's Love. A Dutch tale told in English', Maarten Maartens, 1891.
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
A free web background image with a seamless concrete-like texture and an Indian-red color.
Source V. Hartikainen
Remixed from a drawing in 'Some account of the Worshipful Company of Ironmongers', John Nicholl, 1866.
Source Firkin
Sometimes simple really is what you need, and this could fit you well.
Source Factorio.us Collective