From a drawing in 'At home', J. Sowerby, J. Crane and T. Frederick, 1881.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Navigations de Alouys de Cademoste.-La Navigation du Capitaine Pierre Sintre', Alvise da ca da Mosto, 1895.
Source Firkin
ZeroCC tileabel stone granite texture, edited from pixabay. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Seamless , tileable CC-0 texture. Created by my own, feel free to use wherever you want!
Source Linolafett
People seem to enjoy dark patterns, so here is one with some circles.
Source Atle Mo
Geometric triangles seem to be quite hot these days.
Source Pixeden
A seamless design of flowers remixed from a jpg on Pixabay by Prawny.
Source Firkin
The classic subtle pattern. Sort of wall/brick looking. Or moon-looking?
Source Joel Klein
From a drawing in 'Hundert Jahre in Wort und Bild', S. Stefan, 1899.
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern formed from cross 4. To get the original tile select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Not the most creative name, but it’s a good all-purpose light background.
Source Dmitry
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Light gray paper pattern with small traces of fiber and some dust.
Source Atle Mo
More tactile goodness. This time in the form of some rough cloth.
Source Bartosz Kaszubowski
Inspired by a JPG that was uploaded to Pixabay by kokon_art
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
This is the remix of "Background pattern 115" uploaded by "Firkin".Thanks.
Source Yamachem
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
Here's a dark background pattern that contains a steel grid pattern as a texture. Use it as a website background or for other purposes. It's free!
Source V. Hartikainen
Remixed from a drawing in 'Kulturgeschichte der Deutschen im Mittelalter' Franz von Loeher, 1891. The unit tile can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i
Source Firkin
After 1 comes 2, same but different. You get the idea.
Source Hendrik Lammers