From a drawing in 'At home', J. Sowerby, J. Crane and T. Frederick, 1881.
Source Firkin
Beautiful dark noise pattern with some dust and grunge.
Source Vincent Klaiber
Seamless Green Tile Background
Source V. Hartikainen
Derived from a drawing in 'The Murmur of the Shells', Samuel Cowen, 1879.
Source Firkin
Small dots with minor circles spread across to form a nice mosaic.
Source John Burks
Pattern that came out of playing with the 'slinky' plug-in for Paint.net
Source Firkin
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Redrawn based on a drawing in 'По Сѣверо-Западу Россіи' Konstantin Sluchevsky, 1897.
Source Firkin
With a name this awesome, how can I go wrong?
Source Nikolay Boltachev
This one is so simple, yet so good. And you know it. Has to be in the collection.
Source Gluszczenko
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
This background pattern contains a seamless texture of bark. It's not very realistic, but I think it looks quite nice.
Source V. Hartikainen
From a drawing in 'Heroes of North African Discovery', Nancy Meugens, 1894.
Source Firkin
Colorful Floral Background 3 No Black
Source GDJ
One more in the line of patterns inspired by Japanese/Asian styles. Smooth.
Source Kim Ruddock
Prismatic Abstract Geometric Background 4
Source GDJ
Remixed from a vector adapted from a jpg on Pixabay. The tile this is constructed from can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
No idea what Nistri means, but it’s a crisp little pattern nonetheless.
Source Markus Reiter
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
The rectangular tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Could be paper, could be a Polaroid frame – up to you!
Source Chaos