From a drawing in 'Line and form', Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
Light honeycomb pattern made up of the classic hexagon shape.
Source Federica Pelzel
White fabric looking texture with some nice random wave features.
Source Hendrik Lammers
One of the few full-color patterns here, but this one was just too good to pass up.
Source Alexey Usoltsev
A seamless pattern created from a square tile. To get the tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Colour version that is close to the original drawing uploaded to Pixabay by pencilparker.
Source Firkin
This background pattern looks like bamboo to me. Feel free to download it for your website (for your blog perhaps?).
Source V. Hartikainen
Stefan is hard at work, this time with a funky pattern of squares.
Source Stefan Aleksić
Seamless pattern the tile for which can be had by using shift-alt-I on the selected rectangle in Inkscape.
Source Firkin
Paper pattern with small dust particles and 45-degree strokes.
Source Atle Mo
An attempt for cleaning up the original image in a few steps.
Source Lazur URH
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Nice and simple crossed lines in dark gray tones.
Source Stefan Aleksić
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
This was formed by distorting an image of a background on Pixabay.
Source Firkin
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'At home', J. Sowerby, J. Crane and T. Frederick, 1881.
Source Firkin
One more in the line of patterns inspired by Japanese/Asian styles. Smooth.
Source Kim Ruddock
This ons is quite old school looking. Retro, even. I like it.
Source Arno Declercq
Remixed from a design seen on Pixabay. The basic tile can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 2 No Black
Source GDJ
Vector version of a JPG that was uploaded to Pixabay by theasad121
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