From a drawing in 'Gately's World's Progress', Charles Beale, 1886.
Source Firkin
Vector version of a png that was uploaded to Pixabay by pencilparker
Source Firkin
Formed from a tile based on a drawing from 'Viaggi d'un artista nell'America Meridionale', Guido Boggiani, 1895.
Source Firkin
The name Paisley reminds me of an old British servant. That’s just me.
Source Swetha
Drawn in Paint.net using the kaleidoscope plug-in and vectorised.
Source Firkin
A seamless gray background texture suitable for use on websites. To me, it has the look of stone. Feel free to modify it to meet your needs (by making it a bit lighter or darker, for example).
Source V. Hartikainen
This background has abstract texture with some similarities to wood.
Source V. Hartikainen
Crossing lines with a subtle emboss effect on a dark background.
Source Stefan Aleksić
Remixed from a drawing in 'Hungary. A guide book. By several authors', 1890.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Cassell's Library of English Literature', Henry Morley, 1883.
Source Firkin
There are quite a few grid patterns, but this one is a super tiny grid with some dust for good measure.
Source Dominik Kiss
From a drawing in 'Picturesque New Guinea', J Lindt, 1887.
Source Firkin
You just can’t get enough of the fabric patterns, so here is one more for your collection.
Source Krisp Designs
Remixed from a drawing in 'Works. Popular edition', John Ruskin, 1886.
Source Firkin
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
A smooth mid-tone gray, or low contrast if you will, linen pattern.
Source Jordan Pittman
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
Vector version of a png that was uploaded to Pixabay by pencilparker
Source Firkin
Prismatic Abstract Geometric Background 2
Source GDJ
One more in the line of patterns inspired by Japanese/Asian styles. Smooth.
Source Kim Ruddock
No relation to the band, but damn it’s subtle!
Source Thomas Myrman
A seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
The original enhanced with one of Inkscapes's filters.
Source Firkin
Submitted by DomainsInfo – wtf, right? But hey, a free pattern.
Source DomainsInfo