From a drawing in 'Les Chroniqueurs de l'Histoire de France depuis les origines jusqu'au XVIe siècle', Henriette Witt, 1884.
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
Same as gray sand but lighter. A sandy pattern with small light dots, and some angled strokes.
Source Atle Mo
A light background pattern with diagonal stripes. Here's a simple light striped background for you.
Source V. Hartikainen
A seamless striped fabric-like texture colored in a dark reddish brown color.
Source V. Hartikainen
To get the tile this is formed from select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Zero CC tileable Laminate wood texture, photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
A brown metallic grid pattern layered on top of a dark fabric texture. It should look great when using as a tiled background on web pages, especially blogs.
Source V. Hartikainen
ZeroCC tileable wood boards texture, photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Abstract Arbitrary Geometric Background derived from an image on Pixabay.
Source GDJ
A very dark spotted twinkle pattern for your twinkle needs.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
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
Design drawn in Paint.net, vectorised using Vector Magic and finished in Inkscape.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a drawing in 'Works. Popular edition', John Ruskin, 1886.
Source Firkin
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
As far as fabric patterns goes, this is quite crisp.
Source Heliodor Jalba
Seamless , tileable CC-0 texture. Created by my own, feel free to use wherever you want!
Source Linolafett
A slightly grainy paper pattern with small horizontal and vertical strokes.
Source Atle Mo
From a drawing in 'An Old Maid's Love. A Dutch tale told in English', Maarten Maartens, 1891.
Source Firkin
Looks like an old wall. I guess that’s it then?
Source Viahorizon
Remixed from a drawing in 'Hungary. A guide book. By several authors', 1890.
Source Firkin
Light honeycomb pattern made up of the classic hexagon shape.
Source Federica Pelzel