From a drawing in 'Maidenhood; or, the Verge of the Stream', Laura Jewry, 1876.
Source Firkin
A seamless texture of a rough concrete surface.
Source V. Hartikainen
Not the most creative name, but it’s a good all-purpose light background.
Source Dmitry
A pattern derived from repeating unit cells each derived from part of a mosaic in paint.net. The starting point for the mosaic was a picture of some prawns!
Source Firkin
An abstract pale yellow paper-like background with stains colored in yellow and green.
Source V. Hartikainen
A seamless pattern formed from a tile made from page ornament 22. To get the tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be extracted by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Studies for Stories', Jean Ingelow, 1864.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Some dark 45 degree angles creating a nice pattern. Huge.
Source Dark Sharp Edges
The base gradient edited so now more details are rendered.
Source Lazur URH
A seamless pattern with wide vertical stripes colored in pale yellow.
Source V. Hartikainen
The following orange background pattern resembles a honeycomb.
Source V. Hartikainen
Prismatic Hypnotic Pattern No Background
Source GDJ
From a drawing in 'Cowdray: the history of a great English House', Julia Roundell, 1884.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Floral Pattern 3 Variation 3 No Background
Source GDJ
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
A beautiful dark wood pattern, superbly tiled.
Source Omar Alvarado
Bumps, highlight and shadows – all good things.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
A seamless light gray paper texture with horizontal double lines.
Source V. Hartikainen
This one is amazing, truly original. Go use it!
Source Viahorizon
To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Thin lines, noise and texture creates this crisp dark denim pattern.
Source Marco Slooten
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Design drawn in Paint.net, vectorised using Vector Magic and finished in Inkscape.
Source Firkin