From a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern drawn originally in Paint.net by distorting a slice of background pattern 116 and copying the resulting triangle numerous times.
Source Firkin
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
Imagine you zoomed in 1000X on some fabric. But then it turned out to be a skeleton!
Source Angelica
A free seamless background image with a texture of dark red "canvas". It should look very nice on web sites.
Source V. Hartikainen
High detail stone wall with minor cracks and specks.
Source Projecteightyfive
A textured orange background pattern with vertical stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
An alternative colour scheme for the original seamless texture formed from an image on Pixabay.
Source Firkin
Did anyone say The Hoff? This pattern is in no way related to Baywatch.
Source Josh Green
To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
A seamless background pattern with a texture of wood planks. This wood background pattern has vertically arranged planks. You may try to rotate it 90°, to see how it will look like when the wood planks are arranged horizontally.
Source V. Hartikainen
Heavily remixed from a drawing in 'Barbara Leybourne; a story of eighty years ago', Sarah Hamer, 1889.
Source Firkin
Zero CC tileable seed texture, edited by me to be seamless from a Pixabay image. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Psychedelic Geometric Background No Black
Source GDJ
Derived from a drawing in 'Elfrica. An historical romance of the twelfth century', Charlotte Boger, 1885
Source Firkin
Remixed from a PNG that was uploaded to Pixabay by gingertea
Source Firkin
Seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be extracted by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
The image depicts polka dot seamless pattern.
Source Yamachem
Just what the name says, paper fibers. Always good to have.
Source Heliodor jalba