From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'At home', J. Sowerby, J. Crane and T. Frederick, 1881.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Abstract Geometric Background 4
Source GDJ
From a drawing in 'Two Women in the Klondike', Mary Hitchcock, 1899.
Source Firkin
People seem to enjoy dark patterns, so here is one with some circles.
Source Atle Mo
Classy golf-pants pattern, or crossed stripes if you will.
Source Will Monson
If you like it a bit trippy, this wave pattern might be for you.
Source Ian Soper
From a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
A repeating background with dark brown stone-like texture and abstract pattern that looks like tree trunks.
Source V. Hartikainen
This is the remix of an Openclipart clipart called "Maze" uploaded by "any_ono_mous".Thanks.This is a seamless pattern of a maze.
Source Yamachem
A seamless background tile of aged paper with shabby look.
Source V. Hartikainen
Remixed from a vector adapted from a jpg on Pixabay. The tile this is constructed from can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
I guess this one is inspired by an office. A dark office.
Source Andrés Rigo.
Everyone loves a diamond, right? Make your site sparkle.
Source AJ Troxell
Might not be super subtle, but quite original in its form.
Source Alex Smith
Floral patterns will never go out of style, so enjoy this one.
Source Lasma
Remixed from a drawing that was uploaded to Pixabay by captenpub.
Source Firkin
You guessed it – looks a bit like cloth.
Source Peax Webdesign
A seamless pattern the starting point for which was a 'colour modulo' texture in Paint.net.
Source Firkin
This light background pattern has a texture of "frozen" surface with diagonal stripes. Here's an yet another addition to the collection of free website backgrounds.
Source V. Hartikainen
Seamless , tileable CC-0 texture. Created by my own, feel free to use wherever you want!
Source Linolafett
Carbon fiber is never out of fashion, so here is one more style for you.
Source Alfred Lee
A pattern derived from repeating unit cells each derived from part of a mosaic in paint.net. The starting point for the mosaic was a picture of some prawns!
Source Firkin
Someone was asking about how to achieve a fur pattern at #inkscape irc so tried to make a filter on it. Flood filled fractal noises rigged together. May someone find a good use for these.
Source Lazur URH
If you need a green background for your blog/website, try this one. Remember that Green Striped Background is seamlessly tileable.
Source V. Hartikainen
White fabric looking texture with some nice random wave features.
Source Hendrik Lammers