From a drawing in 'Handbook of the excursions proposed to be made by the Lincoln Diocesan Architectural Society, on the 27th and 28th of May, 1857', Edward Trollope, 1857.
Source Firkin
This is lovely, just the right amount of subtle noise, lines and textures.
Source Richard Tabor
Number 3 in a series of 5 beautiful patterns. Can be found in colors on the submitter’s website.
Source Janos Koos
From a drawing in 'The Quiver of Love', Walter Crane, 1876
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Derived from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by darkmoon1968
Source Firkin
Dark, lines, noise, tactile. You get the drift.
Source Anatoli Nicolae
Scanned some rice paper and tiled it up for you. Enjoy.
Source Atle Mo
I took the liberty of using Dmitry’s pattern and made a version without perforation.
Source Atle Mo
The rectangular tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
And some more testing, this time with Seamless Studio. It’s Robots FFS!
Source Seamless Studio
A re-make of the Gradient Squares pattern.
Source Dimitar Karaytchev
A seamless web background with texture of aged grid paper.
Source V. Hartikainen
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
A dark gray, sandy pattern with small light dots, and some angled strokes.
Source Atle Mo
Inspired by a pattern found in 'A General History of Hampshire, or the County of Southampton, including the Isle of Wight', Bernard Woodwood, 1861
Source Firkin
Seamless Background For Websites. It has a texture similar to cork-board.
Source V. Hartikainen
No idea what Nistri means, but it’s a crisp little pattern nonetheless.
Source Markus Reiter
A large (588x375px) sand-colored pattern for your ever-growing collection. Shrink at will.
Source Alex Tapein
A free black metallic background pattern. Here's a new pattern I made that looks metallic.
Source V. Hartikainen
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
If you like it a bit trippy, this wave pattern might be for you.
Source Ian Soper
Background pattern made in "Grunge-Like" style. Available in both SVG and JPG formats. Edit to your needs then click the download button.
Source V. Hartikainen
Not the most creative name, but it’s a good all-purpose light background.
Source Dmitry