From a drawing in 'Les Chroniqueurs de l'Histoire de France depuis les origines jusqu'au XVIe siècle', Henriette Witt, 1884.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Geometric Pattern Background 2
Source GDJ
Simple gray checkered lines, in light tones.
Source Radosław Rzepecki
To get the repeating unit, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Inspired by a pattern found in 'A General History of Hampshire, or the County of Southampton, including the Isle of Wight', Bernard Woodwood, 1861
Source Firkin
After 1 comes 2, same but different. You get the idea.
Source Hendrik Lammers
ZeroCC tileable stone texture, edited from pixabay, CC0
Source Sojan Janso
From a drawing in 'Bond Slaves. The story of a struggle.', Isabella Varley, 1893.
Source Firkin
Classy golf-pants pattern, or crossed stripes if you will.
Source Will Monson
Seamless Dark Grunge Texture. Here's a new grunge texture for use as a background.
Source V. Hartikainen
From a drawing in 'Less Black than we're painted', James Payn, 1884.
Source Firkin
An interesting dark spotted pattern at an angle.
Source Hendrik Lammers
A seamless pattern the unit cell for which can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
A good starting point for a cardboard pattern. This would work well in a variety of colors.
Source Atle Mo
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
Can’t believe we don’t have this in the collection already! Slick woven pattern with crisp details.
Source Max Rudberg
A very dark asfalt pattern based off of a photo taken with my iPhone.
Source Atle Mo
Same as Silver Scales, but in black. Turn your site into a dragon with this great scale pattern.
Source Alex Parker
The file was named striped lens, but hey – Translucent Fibres works too.
Source Angelica
Lovely pattern with some good-looking non-random noise lines.
Source Zucx
A background pattern inspired by designs seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
The image is a seamless pattern of a fishnet.
Source Yamachem
Zero CC tileable grass texture, photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Derived from a corner decoration itself found as a jpg on Pixabay.
Source Firkin
One of the few full-color patterns here, but this one was just too good to pass up.
Source Alexey Usoltsev