From a drawing in 'Gately's World's Progress', Charles Beale, 1886.
Source Firkin
A dark metal plate with an embossed grid pattern and a bit of rust. Here's a dark metal plate texture for use as a tiled background on web pages.
Source V. Hartikainen
You were craving more leather, so I whipped this up by scanning a leather jacket.
Source Atle Mo
Paper pattern with small dust particles and 45-degree strokes.
Source Atle Mo
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Design drawn in Paint.net, vectorised using Vector Magic and finished in Inkscape.
Source Firkin
A seamless green background texture. The image is distributed under a Creative Commons License (like all of the images here).
Source V. Hartikainen
From a drawing in 'Cowdray: the history of a great English House', Julia Roundell, 1884.
Source Firkin
Super simple but very nice indeed. Gray with vertical stripes.
Source Merrin Macleod
A pale yellow background pattern with vertical stripes. The stripes are partially faded. I think this background image turned out pretty well, especially those faded stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
Hexagonal dark 3D pattern. What more can you ask for?
Source Norbert Levajsics
A repeatable image with dark background and metal grid pattern.
Source V. Hartikainen
A background pattern inspired by designs seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Triangular Background Design Mark II 5
Source GDJ
The image depicts a seamless pattern which includes hexagonally-aligned gourds with BG in light-brown.
Source Yamachem
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Remixed from a raster on Pixabay that was uploaded by ArtsyBee.
Source Firkin
The image is a design of blue glass.How about using it as background image?
Source Yamachem