Oh yes, it happened! A pattern in full color.
Source Atle Mo
Remixed from a drawing in 'Maidenhood; or, the Verge of the Stream', Laura Jewry, 1876.
Source Firkin
This is a grid, only it’s noisy. You know. Reminds you of those printed grids you draw on.
Source Vectorpile
A series of 5 patterns. That’s what the P stands for, if you didn’t guess it.
Source Dima Shiper
Formed by distorting the inside front cover of 'Diversæ insectarum volatilium : icones ad vivum accuratissmè depictæ per celeberrimum pictorem', Jacob Hoefnagel, 1630.
Source Firkin
This is sort of fresh, but still feels a bit old school.
Source Martuchox
A seamless paper background texture colored in pale yellow. This seamless texture is ideal for those who need a yellow background image for their website. The texture resembles paper.
Source V. Hartikainen
White fabric looking texture with some nice random wave features.
Source Hendrik Lammers
This one needs to be used in small areas; you can see it repeat.
Source Luca
Old China with a modern twist, take two.
Source Adam Charlts
From a drawing in 'Chambéry à la fin du XIVe siècle', Timoleon Chapperon, 1863.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 5 No Black
Source GDJ
A re-make of the Gradient Squares pattern.
Source Dimitar Karaytchev
From an image on opengameart.org shared by rubberduck.
Source Firkin
Recreated from a pattern found in 'Az Osztrák-Magyar Monarchia irásban és képben', 1882. 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
A brown seamless wood texture in a form of stripe pattern. The result has turned out pretty well, in my opinion.
Source V. Hartikainen
Remixed from a drawing in 'Line and form', Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
A free seamless texture of reptile skin colored in a dark brown color. As always, you may use it as a repeated background image in your web design works, or for any other purposes.
Source V. Hartikainen
Bright Multicolored Floral Background by Karen Arnold from PDP.
Source GDJ
From a drawing in 'Studies for Stories', Jean Ingelow, 1864.
Source Firkin