From a drawing in 'Chambéry à la fin du XIVe siècle', Timoleon Chapperon, 1863.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Geometric Pattern Background No Black
Source GDJ
Adapted heavily from a JPG that was uploaded to Pixabay by Viscious-Speed.
Source Firkin
A monochrome pattern from a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscaope and using 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
Colored maple leaves scattered on a surface. This is tileable, so it can be used as a background or wallpaper.
Source Eady
A seamless pattern formed from a modified version of rwwgub's tile. To get the tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Cowdray: the history of a great English House', Julia Roundell, 1884.
Source Firkin
Bright Multicolored Floral Background by Karen Arnold from PDP.
Source GDJ
More tactile goodness. This time in the form of some rough cloth.
Source Bartosz Kaszubowski
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
The name alone is awesome, but so is this sweet dark pattern.
Source Federica Pelzel
A subtle shadowed checkered pattern. Increase the lightness for even more subtle sexiness.
Source Josh Green
A seamless background drawn in Paint.net and vectorised with Vector Magic. The starting point was a photograph of drinking straws from Pixabay.
Source Firkin
A new take on the black linen pattern. Softer this time.
Source Atle Mo
This one resembles a black concrete wall when is tiled. It should look great, at least with dark website themes.
Source V. Hartikainen
From a drawing in 'Cassell's Library of English Literature', Henry Morley, 1883.
Source Firkin
A pattern derived from repeating unit cells each derived from part of a mosaic in paint.net. The starting point for the mosaic was a picture of some prawns!
Source Firkin
Floral patterns will never go out of style, so enjoy this one.
Source Lasma
More tactile goodness. This time in the form of some rough cloth.
Source Bartosz Kaszubowski
An aged paper background tile with smeared and pressed text.
Source V. Hartikainen
I guess this one is inspired by an office. A dark office.
Source Andrés Rigo.
An interesting dark spotted pattern at an angle.
Source Hendrik Lammers