Embossed lines and squares with subtle highlights.
Source Alex Parker
From a drawing in 'Les Chroniqueurs de l'Histoire de France depuis les origines jusqu'au XVIe siècle', Henriette Witt, 1884.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
Source Firkin
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Geometric triangles seem to be quite hot these days.
Source Pixeden
I guess this is inspired by the city of Ravenna in Italy and its stone walls.
Source Sentel
A large (588x375px) sand-colored pattern for your ever-growing collection. Shrink at will.
Source Alex Tapein
To get the tile this is formed from select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Snowflakes Pattern 3 No Background
Source GDJ
Seamless Prismatic Pythagorean Line Art Pattern No Background. A seamless pattern that includes the original tile (go to Objects / Pattern / Pattern To Objects in Inkscape's menu to extract it).
Source GDJ
Zero CC tileable yellow craft paper; scanned and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
From a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background
Source GDJ
Remixed from a drawing in 'An Index to Deering's Nottinghamia Vetus et Nova', Rupert Chicken, 1899. The unit tile can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i
Source Firkin
A seamless web texture with illustration of pale color stains on canvas.
Source V. Hartikainen
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
Classic vertical lines, in all its subtlety.
Source Cody L
Your eyes can trip a bit from looking at this – use it wisely.
Source Michal Chovanec
One of the few full-color patterns here, but this one was just too good to pass up.
Source Alexey Usoltsev
From a drawing in 'At home', J. Sowerby, J. Crane and T. Frederick, 1881.
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i
Source Firkin
Prismatic Triangular Background Design Mark II 5
Source GDJ
Stefan is hard at work, this time with a funky pattern of squares.
Source Stefan Aleksić
The following free background pattern has glossy diagonal stripes as a texture to it, and it's colored in a light blue gray color. This background pattern is suitable for using in web design or any other graphic design projects. This applies to all background patterns here.
Source V. Hartikainen