From a drawing in 'Resa i Afrika, genom Angola, Ovampo och Damaraland', P. Moller, 1899.
Source Firkin
Tiny circle waves, almost like the ocean.
Source Sagive
Retro Circles Background 8 No Black
Source GDJ
Remixed from a drawing in 'An Index to Deering's Nottinghamia Vetus et Nova', Rupert Chicken, 1899. The unit tile can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i
Source Firkin
Lovely pattern with splattered vintage speckles.
Source David Pomfret
Sharp pixel pattern looking like some sort of fabric.
Source Dmitry
A free seamless background image with abstract texture of green "curtain".
Source V. Hartikainen
Remixed from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by Pixeline
Source Firkin
Coming in at 666x666px, this is an evil big pattern, but nice and soft at the same time.
Source Atle Mo
From a drawing in 'Navigations de Alouys de Cademoste.-La Navigation du Capitaine Pierre Sintre', Alvise da ca da Mosto, 1895.
Source Firkin
The unit cell for this seamless pattern can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
You know you love wood patterns, so here’s one more.
Source Richard Tabor
A blue background wallpaper for websites. It has a seamless texture with vertical stripes. It looks quite nice not only when using as a tiled background on websites, but also on computer desktops.
Source V. Hartikainen
Remixed from a JPG that was uploaded to Pixabay by Osckar
Source Firkin
A free seamless background with pink spots.
Source V. Hartikainen
A seamless pattern created from a square tile. To get the tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Classic vertical lines, in all its subtlety.
Source Cody L
By popular request, an outline version of the pentagon pattern.
Source Atle Mo
This is a semi-dark pattern, sort of linen-y.
Source Sagive SEO
Seamless , tileable CC-0 texture. Created by my own, feel free to use wherever you want!
Source Linolafett
A seamless light gray paper texture with horizontal double lines.
Source V. Hartikainen
Seamless , tileable CC-0 texture. Created by my own, feel free to use wherever you want!
Source Linolafett
Looks a bit like concrete with subtle specks spread around the pattern.
Source Mladjan Antic