From a drawing in 'A Rolling Stone. A tale of wrongs and revenge', John Hartley, 1878.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
Simple gray checkered lines, in light tones.
Source Radosław Rzepecki
A nice one indeed, but I have a feeling we have it already? If you spot a copy, let me know on Twitter.
Source Graphiste
Seamless , tileable CC-0 texture. Created by my own, feel free to use wherever you want!
Source Linolafett
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
A seamless pattern with wide vertical stripes colored in pale yellow.
Source V. Hartikainen
From a drawing in 'Studies for Stories', Jean Ingelow, 1864.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a drawing in 'Line and form', Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
The act or state of corrugating or of being corrugated, a wrinkle; fold; furrow; ridge.
Source Anna Litvinuk
A seamless chequerboard pattern formed from a tile that can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i. Alternative colour scheme.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Codogno e il suo territorio nella cronaca e nella storia'', Gio and Giarella Cairo, 1897.
Source Firkin
Could remind you a bit of those squares in Super Mario Bros, yeh?
Source Jeff Wall
Sort of reminds me of those old house wallpapers.
Source Tish
Looks like a technical drawing board: small squares forming a nice grid.
Source We Are Pixel8
A seamless background texture of old cardboard.
Source V. Hartikainen
A free background tile with a pattern of pink bump dots. This background tile is sweet! Moreover, it's designed for use as website backgrounds.
Source V. Hartikainen
This is so subtle you need to bring your magnifier!
Source Carlos Valdez
Everyone needs some stardust. Sprinkle it on your next project.
Source Atle Mo
Crossing lines with a subtle emboss effect on a dark background.
Source Stefan Aleksić
Just the symbols of the signs of the zodiac distributed in a chequer board-like pattern
Source Firkin