From a drawing in 'Line and form', Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
This is a hot one. Small, sharp and unique.
Source GraphicsWall
Dark, crisp and subtle. Tiny black lines on top of some noise.
Source Wilmotte Bastien
A seamless pattern formed from cross 4. To get the original tile select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Curved Diamond Pattern 4 No Background
Source GDJ
Remixed from a drawing in 'Line and form', Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
Some more diagonal lines and noise, because you know you want it.
Source Atle Mo
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
This was formed by distorting an image of a background on Pixabay.
Source Firkin
Utilising a bird from s-light and some flowers from Almeidah. To get the unit tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Here's a new paper-like background for free use on personal and commercial projects (this applies to all background patterns here).
Source V. Hartikainen
Remixed from a drawing in 'Line and form", Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
Like the name says, light and gray, with some small dots and circles.
Source Brenda Lay
Super detailed 16×16 tile that forms a beautiful pattern of straws.
Source Pavel
Prismatic Curved Diamond Pattern 3 No Background
Source GDJ
Geometric lines are always hot, and this pattern is no exception.
Source Listvetra
This could be a hippy vintage wallpaper.
Source Tileable Patterns
Zero CC tillable hard cover red book with X shape marks. Scanned and made by me.
Source Sojan Janso
From a drawing in 'Cassell's Library of English Literature', Henry Morley, 1883.
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