From a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'La Principauté de Liège et les Pays-Bas au XVIe siècle', Société des Bibliophiles Liégeois ,1887.
Source Firkin
Made by distorting a simple pattern using the 'sin waves' plugin for Paint.net and vectorising in Vector Magic
Source Firkin
A pattern formed from a squared tile. The tile can be accessed in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Looks like a technical drawing board: small squares forming a nice grid.
Source We Are Pixel8
A pale olive green background with a seamless texture.
Source V. Hartikainen
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
A pattern formed from a squared tile. The tile can be accessed in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Resa i Afrika, genom Angola, Ovampo och Damaraland', P. Moller, 1899.
Source Firkin
I love cream! 50x50px and lovely in all the good ways.
Source Thomas Myrman
From a drawing in 'Studies for Stories', Jean Ingelow, 1864.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a drawing in 'Chambéry à la fin du XIVe siècle', Timoleon Chapperon, 1863.
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
One more sharp little tile for you. Subtle circles this time.
Source Blunia
More Japanese-inspired patterns, Gold Scales this time.
Source Josh Green
This one is so simple, yet so good. And you know it. Has to be in the collection.
Source Gluszczenko
Zero CC tileable ground (#2) cracked, crackled texture, made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Remixed from a drawing in 'The Canadian horticulturist', 1892
Source Firkin
Greyscale version of a pattern that came out of playing with the 'light rays' plug-in for Paint.net
Source Firkin
Snap! It’s a pattern, and it’s not grayscale! Of course you can always change the color in Photoshop.
Source Atle Mo
This was submitted in a beige color, hence the name. Now it’s a gray paper pattern.
Source Konstantin Ivanov
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
The following free background pattern has glossy diagonal stripes as a texture to it, and it's colored in a light blue gray color. This background pattern is suitable for using in web design or any other graphic design projects. This applies to all background patterns here.
Source V. Hartikainen
This one is amazing, truly original. Go use it!
Source Viahorizon
Remixed from a design seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a raster on Pixabay, that was uploaded by ArtsyBee.
Source Firkin