From a drawing in 'From Snowdon to the Sea. Striking stories of North and South Wales', Marie Trevelyan, 1895.
Source Firkin
One of the few full-color patterns here, but this one was just too good to pass up.
Source Alexey Usoltsev
Smooth Polaroid pattern with a light blue tint.
Source Daniel Beaton
It’s like Shine Dotted’s sister, only rotated 45 degrees.
Source mediumidee
Almost like little fish shells, or dragon skin.
Source Graphiste
Seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be extracted by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Kingsdene', Maria Fetherstonehaugh, 1878.
Source Firkin
A dark pattern made out of 3×3 circles and a 1px shadow. This works well as a carbon texture or background.
Source Atle Mo
Prismatic Abstract Geometric Background 4 No Black
Source GDJ
A seamless pattern based on a square tile that can be retrieved in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Curved Diamond Pattern 5 No Background
Source GDJ
Zero CC tileable yellow craft paper; scanned and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
If you want png files of this u can download them here : viscious-speed.deviantart.com/gallery/27635117
Source Viscious-Speed
This was formed by distorting an image of a background on Pixabay.
Source Firkin
Remixed from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by Pixeline
Source Firkin
Love the style on this one, very fresh. Diagonal diamond pattern. Get it?
Source INS
A pattern formed from a photograph of a 16th century ceramic tile.
Source Firkin
Beautiful dark noise pattern with some dust and grunge.
Source Vincent Klaiber
A classic dark tile for a bit of vintage darkness.
Source Listvetra
This yellow background consists of a pattern of glossy gold buttons arranged in polka dot style on a seamless texture. Here's a pale yellow background pattern. Feel free to use it for your needs!
Source V. Hartikainen
Remixed from a design seen on Pixabay. The basic tile can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Green Web Background, Seamless tile.
Source V. Hartikainen
From a drawing in 'Maidenhood; or, the Verge of the Stream', Laura Jewry, 1876.
Source Firkin
A free light orange brown wallpaper with vertical stripes designed for use as a tiled background on websites. An yet another background pattern with vertical stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen