Sometimes you just need the simplest thing.
Source Fabricio
From a drawing in 'Picturesque New Guinea', J Lindt, 1887.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'The Quiver of Love', Walter Crane, 1876
Source Firkin
Inspired by a pattern seen on a public domain image of a very old tile. To get the unit cell, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Inspired by a 1930s wallpaper pattern I saw on TV.
Source Firkin
Zero CC tileable hard cover red book, scanned and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
With a name like this, it has to be hot. Diagonal lines in light shades.
Source Isaac
Very simple, very blu(e). Subtle and nice.
Source Seb Jachec
Remixed from a drawing in 'Incidents on a Journey through Nubia to Darfoor', F. Ensor, 1891.
Source Firkin
A mid-tone gray pattern with some cement looking texture.
Source Hendrik Lammers
From a drawing in 'In an Enchanted Island', William Mallock, 1892.
Source Firkin
This makes me wanna shoot some pool! Sweet green pool table pattern.
Source Caveman
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
A seamless pattern formed from a modified version of rwwgub's tile. To get the tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
A brown metallic grid pattern layered on top of a dark fabric texture. It should look great when using as a tiled background on web pages, especially blogs.
Source V. Hartikainen
Colored maple leaves scattered on a surface. This is tileable, so it can be used as a background or wallpaper.
Source Eady
From a drawing in 'Navigations de Alouys de Cademoste.-La Navigation du Capitaine Pierre Sintre', Alvise da ca da Mosto, 1895.
Source Firkin
Seamless Background For Websites. It has a texture similar to cork-board.
Source V. Hartikainen
Vector version of a png that was uploaded to Pixabay by pencilparker
Source Firkin
This was formed by distorting an image of a background on Pixabay.
Source Firkin