From a drawing in 'Les Chroniqueurs de l'Histoire de France depuis les origines jusqu'au XVIe siècle', Henriette Witt, 1884.
Source Firkin
Heavily remixed from a drawing in 'Barbara Leybourne; a story of eighty years ago', Sarah Hamer, 1889.
Source Firkin
A comeback for you: the popular Escheresque, now in black.
Source Patten
Seamless , tileable CC-0 texture. Created by my own, feel free to use wherever you want!
Source Linolafett
A free seamless background image with a texture of dark red "canvas". It should look very nice on web sites.
Source V. Hartikainen
A pale orange background pattern with glossy groove stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
Classic vertical lines, in all its subtlety.
Source Cody L
No idea what Nistri means, but it’s a crisp little pattern nonetheless.
Source Markus Reiter
CC0 and a seamless pattern from a tile drawn in Paint.net .
Source SliverKnight
From a drawing in 'Resa i Afrika, genom Angola, Ovampo och Damaraland', P. Moller, 1899.
Source Firkin
Never out of fashion and so much hotter than the 45º everyone knows, here is a sweet 60º line pattern.
Source Atle Mo
Background Wall, Art Abstract, Blue Well & CC0 texture.
Source Ractapopulous
Number five from the same submitter, makes my job easy.
Source Dima Shiper
It’s okay to be square! A nice light gray pattern with random squares.
Source Waseem Dahman
Background Wall, Art Abstract, white Well & CC0 texture.
Source Ractapopulous