One week and it's Easter already. Thought I would revisit the decorated egg contest at inkscape community: http://forum.inkscapecommunity.com/index.php?topic=118.0
Source Lazur URH
Recreated from a pattern found in 'Az Osztrák-Magyar Monarchia irásban és képben', 1882. To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
An attempt for cleaning up the original image in a few steps.
Source Lazur URH
Prismatic Curved Diamond Pattern 4 No Background
Source GDJ
Remixed from a drawing in 'Maidenhood; or, the Verge of the Stream', Laura Jewry, 1876.
Source Firkin
The texture of this background image has some similarities with leather, and it's colored in a dark brown color. So, if you are looking for a dark brown background image for your website, this may be an option for you.
Source V. Hartikainen
Prismatic Curved Diamond Pattern 5 No Background
Source GDJ
Seamless , tileable CC-0 texture. Created by my own, feel free to use wherever you want!
Source Linolafett
Prismatic Abstract Geometric Background 5 No Black
Source GDJ
I guess this is inspired by the city of Ravenna in Italy and its stone walls.
Source Sentel
From a drawing in 'Hyde Park from Domesday-Book to date', John Ashton, 1896.
Source Firkin
This seamless light brown background texture resembles a wallpaper with vertical stripes. One way to use it is as a tiled background on web sites.
Source V. Hartikainen
Prismatic Basic Pattern 2 No Background
Source GDJ
An emulated “transparent” background pattern, like that of all kinds of computer graphics software.
Source AdamStanislav
This was formed by distorting an image of a background on Pixabay.
Source Firkin
Based on an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by devanath
Source Firkin
Greyscale version of a pattern that came out of playing with the 'light rays' plug-in for Paint.net
Source Firkin