From a drawing in 'Gately's World's Progress', Charles Beale, 1886.
Source Firkin
The original enhanced with some gradients.
Source Firkin
This texture looks like old leather. It should look great as a background on web pages.
Source V. Hartikainen
From a drawing in 'Less Black than we're painted', James Payn, 1884.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a design on Pixabay. To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i
Source Firkin
I have no idea what J Boo means by this name, but hey – it’s hot.
Source j Boo
The first pattern on here using opacity. Try it on a site with a colored background, or even using mixed colors.
Source Nathan Spady
Design drawn in Paint.net, vectorised using Vector Magic and finished in Inkscape.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Royal Ramsgate', James Simson, 1897.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Uit de geschiedenis der Heilige Stede te Amsterdam', Yohannes Sterck, 1898.
Source Firkin
CC0 and a seamless pattern from a tile drawn in Paint.net .
Source SliverKnight
Number 3 in a series of 5 beautiful patterns. Can be found in colors on the submitter’s website.
Source Janos Koos
To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Inspired by a pattern seen on a public domain image of a very old tile. To get the unit cell, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
The classic subtle pattern. Sort of wall/brick looking. Or moon-looking?
Source Joel Klein
Sort of like the back of a wooden board. Light, subtle, and stylish, just the way we like it!
Source Nikolalek
Thin lines, noise and texture creates this crisp dark denim pattern.
Source Marco Slooten
Tiny, tiny 3D cubes. Reminds me of the good old pattern from k10k.
Source Etienne Rallion
A seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
A pattern formed from a squared tile. The tile can be accessed in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
A dark brown fabric-like background texture with seamless pattern of winding stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
Luxury pattern, looking like it came right out of Paris.
Source Daniel Beaton
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
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
One more brick pattern. A bit more depth to this one.
Source Benjamin Ward
Green Background Pattern
Source V. Hartikainen