From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Just to prove my point, here is a slightly modified dark version.
Source Atle Mo
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
You know you can’t get enough of these linen-fabric-y patterns.
Source James Basoo
Hexagonal dark 3D pattern. What more can you ask for?
Source Norbert Levajsics
Remixed from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by Pixeline
Source Firkin
The image depicts a seamless pattern which includes hexagonally-aligned gourds with BG in light-brown.
Source Yamachem
Could be paper, could be a Polaroid frame – up to you!
Source Chaos
To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
A bit like some carbon, or knitted netting if you will.
Source Anna Litvinuk
Utilising a bird from s-light and some flowers from Almeidah. To get the unit tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Wasn't satisfied with the original's colouring. Too much component transfer and colormatrixes yet the results are lacking a bit. So this time it is a simple black to transparent fade, making it possible remixing easily once there will be other blending modes supported as well. Probably in inkscape 0.92.
Source Lazur URH
From a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
The tile this is based on can be retrieved by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
A brown seamless wood texture in a form of stripe pattern. The result has turned out pretty well, in my opinion.
Source V. Hartikainen
A free seamless background image with a texture of dark red "canvas". It should look very nice on web sites.
Source V. Hartikainen
From a drawing in 'La Principauté de Liège et les Pays-Bas au XVIe siècle', Société des Bibliophiles Liégeois ,1887.
Source Firkin
Utilising some flowers from Almeidah. To get the unit tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
A textured orange background pattern with vertical stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
Abstract Geometric Monochrome Pattern Prismatic No Background
Source GDJ
From a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
Source Firkin
Utilising a bird from s-light and some flowers from Almeidah. To get the unit tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Dark squares with some virus-looking dots in the grid.
Source Hugo Loning
The classic subtle pattern. Sort of wall/brick looking. Or moon-looking?
Source Joel Klein