You know I’m a sucker for these. Well-crafted paper pattern.
Source Mihaela Hinayon
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
A free seamless background texture of "timber wall" (colored in dark brown).
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
Seamless Light Background Texture.
Source V. Hartikainen
This is a semi-dark pattern, sort of linen-y.
Source Sagive SEO
Remixed from a design seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857. The tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Prepared mostly as a raster in Paint.net and vectorised.
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern formed from background pattern 102
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern created from a square tile. To get the tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Geometric Tessellation Pattern 3 No Background
Source GDJ
Black & white version of a pattern that came out of playing with the 'light rays' plug-in for Paint.net
Source Firkin
An orange vertically striped background pattern. Feel free to download and use this orange background pattern, for example, on the web). It resembles a wallpaper with vertical stripes or something similar to it.
Source V. Hartikainen
From a drawing in 'Les Chroniqueurs de l'Histoire de France depuis les origines jusqu'au XVIe siècle', Henriette Witt, 1884.
Source Firkin
A huge one at 800x600px. Made from a photo I took going home after work.
Source Atle Mo
I guess this is inspired by the city of Ravenna in Italy and its stone walls.
Source Sentel
Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 5
Source GDJ
Very dark pattern with some noise and 45-degree lines.
Source Stefan Aleksić
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin