A free seamless background image with a texture of dark red "canvas". It should look very nice on web sites.
Source V. Hartikainen
I skipped number 3, because it wasn’t all that great. Sorry.
Source Dima Shiper
From a drawing in 'Prose and Verse ', William Linton, 1836.
Source Firkin
I guess this is inspired by the city of Ravenna in Italy and its stone walls.
Source Sentel
A seamless pattern formed from miutopia's cakes on a tablecloth.
Source Firkin
Just a nice looking textured pattern with faded blue stripes. Well, that's it for today... one background a day, as usual.
Source V. Hartikainen
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Les Chroniqueurs de l'Histoire de France depuis les origines jusqu'au XVIe siècle', Henriette Witt, 1884.
Source Firkin
A monochrome pattern from a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscaope and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Derived from a drawing in 'The Murmur of the Shells', Samuel Cowen, 1879.
Source Firkin
Classy golf-pants pattern, or crossed stripes if you will.
Source Will Monson
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Small gradient crosses inside 45-degree boxes, or bigger crosses if you will.
Source Wassim
A floral background formed from numerous clones of flower 117.
Source Firkin
You know, tiny and sharp. I’m sure you’ll find a use for it.
Source Atle Mo
From a drawing in 'Real Sailor-Songs', John Ashton, 1891.
Source Firkin
Utilising some flowers from Almeidah. To get the unit tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Super detailed 16×16 tile that forms a beautiful pattern of straws.
Source Pavel
From a drawing in 'Bond Slaves. The story of a struggle.', Isabella Varley, 1893.
Source Firkin
A tile-able background for websites with paper-like texture and a grid pattern layered on top of it.
Source V. Hartikainen