From a drawing in 'At home', J. Sowerby, J. Crane and T. Frederick, 1881.
Source Firkin
A pattern formed from a photograph of a 16th century ceramic tile.
Source Firkin
A seamless textured paper for backgrounds. Colored in pale orange hues.
Source V. Hartikainen
On a large canvas you can see it tiling, but used on smaller areas, it’s beautiful.
Source Paul Phönixweiß
More bright luxury. This is a bit larger than fancy deboss, and with a bit more noise.
Source Viszt Péter
This is the remix of "blue wave-seigaiha".The image depicts a seamless pattern of the front upper part of Japanese five yen coin which is used currently.This design represents a rice with ripe golden ears.
Source Yamachem
A free seamless background image with a texture of dark red "canvas". It should look very nice on web sites.
Source V. Hartikainen
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
The classic 45-degree diagonal line pattern, done right.
Source Jorick van Hees
Seamless , tileable CC-0 texture. Created by my own, feel free to use wherever you want!
Source Linolafett
It’s like Shine Dotted’s sister, only rotated 45 degrees.
Source mediumidee
This background pattern looks like bamboo to me. Feel free to download it for your website (for your blog perhaps?).
Source V. Hartikainen
Prismatic Basic Pattern 2 No Background
Source GDJ
A seamless pattern formed from a square tile. The tile can be retrieved by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-I. A version of the original with random colors.
Source Firkin
Psychedelic Geometric Background No Black
Source GDJ
Here's a brown background pattern with subtle stripes. I hope you'll like the color. If not, feel free to change it using an image editor, if you know how of course. Personally, I'm using GIMP to create these backgrounds.
Source V. Hartikainen
Here's an yet another seamless note paper texture for use as a background on websites.
Source V. Hartikainen
Prismatic Geometric Pattern Background No Black
Source GDJ
Remixed from a design seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857.
Source Firkin
These dots are already worn for you, so you don’t have to.
Source Matt McDaniel
Remixed from a drawing in 'Analecta Eboracensia', Thomas Widdrington, 1897.
Source Firkin
Recreated from a pattern found in 'Az Osztrák-Magyar Monarchia irásban és képben', 1882. To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin