Remixed from a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
Source Firkin
Dark blue concrete wall with some small dust spots.
Source Atle Mo
To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
This one is super crisp at 2X. Lined paper with some dust and scratches.
Source HQvectors
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
The classic notebook paper with horizontal stripes.
Source Are Sundnes
Oh yes, it happened! A pattern in full color.
Source Atle Mo
This is so subtle you need to bring your magnifier!
Source Carlos Valdez
A textured blue background pattern with vertical stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
A free tileable background colored in off-white (antique white) color.
Source V. Hartikainen
From a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
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
Here's a new paper-like background for free use on personal and commercial projects (this applies to all background patterns here).
Source V. Hartikainen
A seamless pattern formed from background pattern 102
Source Firkin
This makes me wanna shoot some pool! Sweet green pool table pattern.
Source Caveman
From a drawing in 'Chambéry à la fin du XIVe siècle', Timoleon Chapperon, 1863.
Source Firkin
Non-seamless pattern drawn in Paint.net and vectorised in Vector Magic.
Source Firkin
Did anyone say The Hoff? This pattern is in no way related to Baywatch.
Source Josh Green
The act or state of corrugating or of being corrugated, a wrinkle; fold; furrow; ridge.
Source Anna Litvinuk
A seamless background pattern of dark brown wood planks.
Source V. Hartikainen
A classic dark tile for a bit of vintage darkness.
Source Listvetra
Subtle scratches on a light gray background.
Source Andrey Ovcharov
A seamless pattern based on a rectangular tile that can be retrieved in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Actually remixed from a pattern on Pixabay. But then noticed a very similar one on Openclipart.org uploaded by btj51q2.
Source Firkin
A free seamless background texture of "timber wall" (colored in dark brown).
Source V. Hartikainen