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
Remixed from a drawing in 'Kulturgeschichte der Deutschen im Mittelalter' Franz von Loeher, 1891. The unit tile can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i
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Remixed from a drawing in 'A Girl in Ten Thousand', Elizabeth Meade, 1896.
Source Firkin
In the spirit of WWDC 2011, here is a dark iOS inspired linen pattern.
Source Atle Mo
To get the tile this is formed from select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
A light gray fabric pattern with faded vertical stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
This background pattern looks like bamboo to me. Feel free to download it for your website (for your blog perhaps?).
Source V. Hartikainen
A background formed from an image of an old tile on the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art website. To get the base tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
A free tileable background colored in off-white (antique white) color.
Source V. Hartikainen
It’s like Shine Dotted’s sister, only rotated 45 degrees.
Source mediumidee
Remixed from a drawing that was uploaded to Pixabay by captenpub.
Source Firkin
There are many carbon patterns, but this one is tiny.
Source Designova
Bigger is better, right? So here you have some large carbon fiber.
Source Factorio.us Collective
A pattern derived from part of a fractal rendering in Paint.net.
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern from a tile made from a jpg on Pixabay. To get the tile select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
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A cute x, if you need that sort of thing.
Source Juan Scrocchi
From a drawing in 'Resa i Afrika, genom Angola, Ovampo och Damaraland', P. Moller, 1899.
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Number 4 in a series of 5 beautiful patterns. Can be found in colors on the submitter’s website.
Source Janos Koos
From a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
High detail stone wall with minor cracks and specks.
Source Projecteightyfive
Zero CC tileable seed texture, edited by me to be seamless from a Pixabay image. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
A seamless textured paper for backgrounds. Colored in pale orange hues.
Source V. Hartikainen
Dark blue concrete wall with some small dust spots.
Source Atle Mo