With a name this awesome, how can I go wrong?
Source Nikolay Boltachev
A seamless pattern the starting point for which was a 'rainbow twist' texture in Paint.net.
Source Firkin
This background pattern contains worn out colorful stripes as a texture.
Source V. Hartikainen
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
Based on several public domain drawings on Wikimedia Commons. This was formed from a rectangular tile. The tile can be accessed in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
This metal background pattern resembles a metal plate with rivets. Solid rivets on a metal plate.
Source V. Hartikainen
Remixed from a design seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857. The tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
This background pattern contains a texture of yellow wood planks. I think it looks quite original.
Source V. Hartikainen
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
The edges of all the red objects line up either vertically or horizontally, but it doesn't appear so. Made from a square tile that can be got by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Tiny little fibers making a soft and sweet look.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
I took the liberty of using Dmitry’s pattern and made a version without perforation.
Source Atle Mo
Simple combination of stripy squares with their negatively coloured counterparts
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'At home', J. Sowerby, J. Crane and T. Frederick, 1881.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
Source Firkin