From a drawing in 'Cassell's Library of English Literature', Henry Morley, 1883.
Source Firkin
The edges of all the red objects line up either vertically or horizontally, but it doesn't appear so. Made from a square tile that can be got by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
This one is amazing, truly original. Go use it!
Source Viahorizon
Wild Oliva or Oliva Wilde? Darker than the others, sort of a medium dark pattern.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
Colour version of a pattern that came out of playing with the 'light rays' plug-in for Paint.net
Source Firkin
Just a nice looking textured pattern with faded blue stripes. Well, that's it for today... one background a day, as usual.
Source V. Hartikainen
Could remind you a bit of those squares in Super Mario Bros, yeh?
Source Jeff Wall
Drawn in Paint.net using the kaleidoscope plug-in and vectorised.
Source Firkin
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Resa i Afrika, genom Angola, Ovampo och Damaraland', P. Moller, 1899.
Source Firkin
This background pattern contains a seamless texture of bark. It's not very realistic, but I think it looks quite nice.
Source V. Hartikainen
Produced using the clouds, flames and glass blocks plug-ins in Paint.net and the resulting .PNG vectorised with Vector Magic.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
A repeating background with seamless texture of stone. There haven't been any stone-like backgrounds for a while, so I have decided to create one more. The rest can be found in the appropriate category.
Source V. Hartikainen
ZeroCC tileable stone texture, edited from pixabay. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
An abstract web texture of a polished blue stone (or does it look more like ice).
Source V. Hartikainen
Seamless , tileable CC-0 texture. Created by my own, feel free to use wherever you want!
Source Linolafett
A free background tile with a pattern of pink bump dots. This background tile is sweet! Moreover, it's designed for use as website backgrounds.
Source V. Hartikainen
Geometric lines are always hot, and this pattern is no exception.
Source Listvetra
An emulated “transparent” background pattern, like that of all kinds of computer graphics software.
Source AdamStanislav
I’m starting to think I have a concrete wall fetish.
Source Atle Mo
Have you wondered about how it feels to be buried alive? Here is the pattern for it.
Source Hendrik Lammers
Zero CC plastic pattern texture, photographed and made by me. CC0 *Note, this texture was on the perfectly smooth surface of a plastic shovel scraper, not sure how to call it. Plz coment if you know what its called.
Source Sojan Janso
Love me some light mesh on a Monday. Sharp.
Source Wilmotte Bastien
Number 4 in a series of 5 beautiful patterns. Can be found in colors on the submitter’s website.
Source Janos Koos
A seamless pattern formed from a square tile based on a jpg on Pixabay. The tile can be retrieved by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-I.
Source Firkin