From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
An interesting dark spotted pattern at an angle.
Source Hendrik Lammers
A background formed from an image of an old tile on the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art website. To get the base tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern formed from background pattern 102
Source Firkin
It almost looks a bit blurry, but then again, so are fishes.
Source Petr Šulc
Lovely pattern with some good-looking non-random noise lines.
Source Zucx
It almost looks a bit blurry, but then again, so are fishes.
Source Petr Šulc
Abstract Tiled Background Extended 8
Source GDJ
One of the few full-color patterns here, but this one was just too good to pass up.
Source Alexey Usoltsev
Seamless , tileable CC-0 texture. Created by my own, feel free to use wherever you want!
Source Linolafett
A pattern formed from a photograph of a 16th century ceramic tile.
Source Firkin
Feel free to download this "Dark Wood" background texture for your web site. The background tiles seamlessly!
Source V. Hartikainen
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Similar to original, but without gaps in between the arrows. This seamless pattern was created from a rectangular tile. To get the tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
This is a grid, only it’s noisy. You know. Reminds you of those printed grids you draw on.
Source Vectorpile
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
Some dark 45 degree angles creating a nice pattern. Huge.
Source Dark Sharp Edges
Prismatic Abstract Background Design
Source GDJ
A huge one at 800x600px. Made from a photo I took going home after work.
Source Atle Mo
Remixed from a PNG that was uploaded to Pixabay by VictorianLady
Source Firkin
Used in small doses, this could be a nice subtle pattern. Used on a large surface, it’s dirty!
Source Paul Reulat