From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Design drawn in Paint.net, vectorised using Vector Magic and finished in Inkscape.
Source Firkin
CC0 and a seamless pattern from a tile drawn in Paint.net .
Source SliverKnight
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
Super subtle indeed, a medium gray pattern with tiny dots in a grid.
Source Designova
From a drawing in 'Cowdray: the history of a great English House', Julia Roundell, 1884.
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is formed from select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Adapted heavily from a JPG that was uploaded to Pixabay by Viscious-Speed.
Source Firkin
A pale yellow background pattern with vertical stripes. The stripes are partially faded. I think this background image turned out pretty well, especially those faded stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
Fabric-ish patterns are close to my heart. French Stucco to the rescue.
Source Christopher Buecheler
The rectangular tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
A seamlessly tileable pink background texture.
Source V. Hartikainen
Same as the black version, but now in shades of gray. Very subtle and fine grained.
Source Atle Mo
Zero CC tileable ground cracked, crackled, texture, made by me.
Source Sojan Janso
A large pattern with funky shapes and form. An original. Sort of origami-ish.
Source Luuk van Baars
Zero CC tileable hard cover cells book texture, 4k, scanned and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Here's a tile-able wood background image for use in web design.
Source V. Hartikainen
Scanned some rice paper and tiled it up for you. Enjoy.
Source Atle Mo
More Japanese-inspired patterns, Gold Scales this time.
Source Josh Green
Seamless , tileable CC-0 texture. Created by my own, feel free to use wherever you want!
Source Linolafett
To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Seamless pattern inspired by a drawing on Pixabay. To get the tile this is formed from, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
A light gray fabric pattern with faded vertical stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen