From a drawing in 'Les Chroniqueurs de l'Histoire de France depuis les origines jusqu'au XVIe siècle', Henriette Witt, 1884.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Bond Slaves. The story of a struggle.', Isabella Varley, 1893.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Abstract Geometric Background 4 No Black
Source GDJ
Zero CC tileable Crackled Cement (streaks) texture, photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Dark pattern with some nice diagonal stitched lines crossing over.
Source Ashton
Seamless pattern the tile for which can be had by using shift-alt-I on the selected rectangle in Inkscape.
Source Firkin
Very simple, very blu(e). Subtle and nice.
Source Seb Jachec
Dark, lines, noise, tactile. You get the drift.
Source Anatoli Nicolae
Black brick wall pattern. Brick your site up!
Source Alex Parker
Based on several public domain drawings on Wikimedia Commons. This was formed from a rectangular tile. The tile can be accessed in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
A simple but elegant classic. Every collection needs one of these.
Source Christopher Burton
Zero CC tileable bark texture, photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
The tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
The square tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Just like your old suit, all striped and smooth.
Source Alex Berkowitz
From a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Different from the original in being a simple tile stored as a pattern definition, rather than numerous repeated objects. Hence easy and quick to give this pattern to objects of different shapes. To get the tile in Inkscape, select the rectangle and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
The square tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Sharp pixel pattern, just like the good old days.
Source Paridhi
Seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be extracted by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
A seamless background drawn in Paint.net and vectorised with Vector Magic. The starting point was a photograph of drinking straws from Pixabay.
Source Firkin
Here's a subtle marble-like background for use on websites.
Source V. Hartikainen
Colour version that is close to the original drawing uploaded to Pixabay by pencilparker.
Source Firkin
This one takes you back to math class. Classic mathematic board underlay.
Source Josh Green