From a drawing in 'Gately's World's Progress', Charles Beale, 1886.
Source Firkin
A repeating background of beige (or is it more vanilla yellow) textured stripes. One more background with stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
A bit like some carbon, or knitted netting if you will.
Source Anna Litvinuk
From a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
Source Firkin
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
"Beige Stone", Tileable Texture.
Source V. Hartikainen
This is a remix of "flower seamless pattern".I rotated the original image by 90 degrees.This is a seamless pattern of flowers.These horizontal wavy lines are one of Edo patterns which is called "tatewaku or tachiwaku or 立湧" that represents uprising steam or vapor.
Source Yamachem
From a drawing in 'Bond Slaves. The story of a struggle.', Isabella Varley, 1893.
Source Firkin
Did anyone say The Hoff? This pattern is in no way related to Baywatch.
Source Josh Green
Colour version of a pattern that came out of playing with the 'light rays' plug-in for Paint.net
Source Firkin
Prismatic Curved Diamond Pattern 6 No Background
Source GDJ
Has nothing to do with toast, but it’s nice and subtle.
Source Pippin Lee
A seamless pale yellow paper background with a pattern of animal tracks.
Source V. Hartikainen
From a drawing in 'A Life Interest', Mrs Alexander, 1888.
Source Firkin
A beautiful dark padded pattern, like an old classic sofa.
Source Chris Baldie
Alternative colour scheme for the original floral pattern.
Source Firkin
Small gradient crosses inside 45-degree boxes, or bigger crosses if you will.
Source Wassim
A seamless background texture of old cardboard.
Source V. Hartikainen
To get the repeating unit, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Subtle scratches on a light gray background.
Source Andrey Ovcharov
Design drawn in Paint.net, vectorised using Vector Magic and finished in Inkscape.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Cassell's Library of English Literature', Henry Morley, 1883.
Source Firkin
A light brushed aluminum pattern for your pleasure.
Source Tim Ward
More in the paper realm, this time with fibers.
Source Jorge Fuentes
From a drawing in 'Les Chroniqueurs de l'Histoire de France depuis les origines jusqu'au XVIe siècle', Henriette Witt, 1884.
Source Firkin
As the original image 's page size is too large for its image size, I remixed it.
Source Yamachem