From a drawing in 'Les Chroniqueurs de l'Histoire de France depuis les origines jusqu'au XVIe siècle', Henriette Witt, 1884.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a raster on Pixabay that was uploaded by ArtsyBee.
Source Firkin
A seamless chequerboard pattern formed from a tile that can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i. Alternative colour scheme.
Source Firkin
There are quite a few grid patterns, but this one is a super tiny grid with some dust for good measure.
Source Dominik Kiss
Tweed is back in style – you heard it here first. Also, the @2X version here is great!
Source Simon Leo
From a drawing in 'Line and form', Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
Seamless pattern the tile for which can be had by using shift-alt-I on the selected rectangle in Inkscape.
Source Firkin
Little x’es, noise and all the stuff you like. Dark like a Monday, with a hint of blue.
Source Tom McArdle
This was formed by distorting an image of a background on Pixabay.
Source Firkin
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
Dead simple but beautiful horizontal line pattern.
Source Fabian Schultz
Zero CC tileable moss or lichen covered stone texture, edited from pixabay. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
I love the movie Pineapple Express, and I’m also liking this Pineapple right here.
Source Audee Mirza
Seamless , tileable CC-0 texture. Created by my own, feel free to use wherever you want!
Source Linolafett
The name Paisley reminds me of an old British servant. That’s just me.
Source Swetha
A free repetitive background with a dark concrete wall like texture. This one may be used in dark web site designs.
Source V. Hartikainen
Remixed from a design on Pixabay. To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Heroes of North African Discovery', Nancy Meugens, 1894.
Source Firkin
A subtle shadowed checkered pattern. Increase the lightness for even more subtle sexiness.
Source Josh Green
Prismatic Abstract Geometric Background 4 No Black
Source GDJ
Got some felt in my mailbox today, so I scanned it for you to use.
Source Atle Mo