From a drawing in 'Chambéry à la fin du XIVe siècle', Timoleon Chapperon, 1863.
Source Firkin
A nice one indeed, but I have a feeling we have it already? If you spot a copy, let me know on Twitter.
Source Graphiste
Background Wall, Art Abstract, Blue Well & CC0 texture.
Source Ractapopulous
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
Honestly, who does not like a little pipe and mustache?
Source Luca Errico
From a design in 'Storia del Palazzo Vecchio in Firenze', Aurelio Gotti, 1889.
Source Firkin
Basket Fibers, Basket Texture, Braid Background style CC0 texture.
Source 1A-Photoshop
From a drawing in 'Hyde Park from Domesday-Book to date', John Ashton, 1896.
Source Firkin
A free tileable background colored in off-white (antique white) color.
Source V. Hartikainen
Inspired by a pattern seen on a public domain image of a very old tile. To get the unit cell, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is formed from select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Colour version of a pattern that came out of playing with the 'light rays' plug-in for Paint.net
Source Firkin
This light background pattern has a texture of "frozen" surface with diagonal stripes. Here's an yet another addition to the collection of free website backgrounds.
Source V. Hartikainen
A repeating background of thick textured paper. Actually, it turned out to look like something between a paper and fabric.
Source V. Hartikainen
After 1 comes 2, same but different. You get the idea.
Source Hendrik Lammers
Just the symbols of the signs of the zodiac distributed in a chequer board-like pattern
Source Firkin
An interesting dark spotted pattern at an angle.
Source Hendrik Lammers
Derived from a drawing in 'At home', J. Sowerby, J. Crane and T. Frederick, 1881.
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Lovely pattern with some good-looking non-random noise lines.
Source Zucx
Light gray grunge wall with a nice texture overlay.
Source Adam Anlauf
The tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Use shift+alt+i on the selected rectangle in Inkscape to get the tile this is based on
Source Firkin
Tiny little fibers making a soft and sweet look.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
Remixed from a design found in 'History of the Virginia Company of London; with letters to and from the first Colony, never before printed', Edward Neill, 1869.
Source Firkin