From a drawing in 'Royal Ramsgate', James Simson, 1897.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Hundert Jahre in Wort und Bild', S. Stefan, 1899.
Source Firkin
Can never have too many knitting patterns, especially as nice as this.
Source Victoria Spahn
A black tile-able background with paper-like texture.
Source V. Hartikainen
Farmer could be some sort of fabric pattern, with a hint of green.
Source Fabian Schultz
Formed from a tile based on a drawing from 'Viaggi d'un artista nell'America Meridionale', Guido Boggiani, 1895.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Basic Pattern 2 No Background
Source GDJ
The image depicts a seamless pattern of a Japanese family crest called "chidori" in Japanese .A chidori in Japanese means a plover in English.
Source Yamachem
Abstract Stars Geometric Pattern Prismatic No Background
Source GDJ
A huge one at 800x600px. Made from a photo I took going home after work.
Source Atle Mo
A free pink background pattern.
Source V. Hartikainen
Prismatic Geometric Tessellation Pattern 4 No Background
Source GDJ
This background pattern contains worn out colorful stripes as a texture.
Source V. Hartikainen
From a drawing in 'Resa i Afrika, genom Angola, Ovampo och Damaraland', P. Moller, 1899.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a design seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern formed from a square tile. The tile can be retrieved by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-I.
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
I guess this is inspired by the city of Ravenna in Italy and its stone walls.
Source Sentel
A repeating background with seamless texture of stone. There haven't been any stone-like backgrounds for a while, so I have decided to create one more. The rest can be found in the appropriate category.
Source V. Hartikainen