From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a JPG that was uploaded to Pixabay by theasad121
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'At home', J. Sowerby, J. Crane and T. Frederick, 1881.
Source Firkin
Seamless tile drawn in Paint.net and vectorised in Vector Magic.
Source Firkin
From drawing in 'Musings in Maoriland', Thomas Bracken, 1890.
Source Firkin
One more brick pattern. A bit more depth to this one.
Source Benjamin Ward
A good starting point for a cardboard pattern. This would work well in a variety of colors.
Source Atle Mo
Just the symbols of the signs of the zodiac distributed in a chequer board-like pattern
Source Firkin
Free tiled background with colorful stripes and white splatter.
Source V. Hartikainen
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
From a drawing in 'Studies for Stories', Jean Ingelow, 1864.
Source Firkin
Zero CC tileable wood texture, made by me procedurally in Neo Texture Edit.
Source Sojan Janso
Remixed from a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892. The tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
A slightly more textured pattern, medium gray. A bit like a potato sack?
Source Bilal Ketab
Remixed from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by Pixeline
Source Firkin
There are quite a few grid patterns, but this one is a super tiny grid with some dust for good measure.
Source Dominik Kiss
Remixed from a design seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857
Source Firkin
Sort of reminds me of those old house wallpapers.
Source Tish
You can never get enough of these tiny pixel patterns with sharp lines.
Source Designova
An emulated “transparent” background pattern, like that of all kinds of computer graphics software.
Source AdamStanislav
A seamless light gray paper texture with horizontal double lines.
Source V. Hartikainen
Some rectangles, a bit of dust and grunge, plus a hint of concrete.
Source Atle Mo
A slightly grainy paper pattern with small horizontal and vertical strokes.
Source Atle Mo