From a drawing in 'The Quiver of Love', Walter Crane, 1876
Source Firkin
Embossed lines and squares with subtle highlights.
Source Alex Parker
Seamless Green Tile Background
Source V. Hartikainen
If you want png files of this u can download them here : viscious-speed.deviantart.com/gallery/27635117
Source Viscious-Speed
Colourful background achieved with gradient fills.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a drawing in 'Line and form', Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
Just what the name says, paper fibers. Always good to have.
Source Heliodor jalba
A seamless pattern from a tile drawn in Paint.net and vectorised in Vector Magic
Source Firkin
Vector version of a JPG that was uploaded to Pixabay by theasad121
Source Firkin
Formed from a tile based on a drawing from 'Viaggi d'un artista nell'America Meridionale', Guido Boggiani, 1895.
Source Firkin
A lovely light gray pattern with stripes and a dash of noise.
Source V. Hartikainen
A slightly more textured pattern, medium gray. A bit like a potato sack?
Source Bilal Ketab
A hint of orange color, and some crossed and embossed lines.
Source Adam Anlauf
From a drawing in 'Resa i Afrika, genom Angola, Ovampo och Damaraland', P. Moller, 1899.
Source Firkin
The unit cell for this seamless pattern can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
This is the remix of "Background pattern 115" uploaded by "Firkin".Thanks.
Source Yamachem
A free grid paper background pattern for using on web sites.
Source V. Hartikainen
It looks very nice I think.
Source V. Hartikainen
From a design found in 'History of the Virginia Company of London; with letters to and from the first Colony, never before printed', Edward Neill, 1869.
Source Firkin
We have some linen patterns here, but none that are stressed. Until now.
Source Jordan Pittman
Washi (和紙?) is a type of paper made in Japan. Here’s the pattern for you!
Source Carolynne
From a drawing in 'Uit de geschiedenis der Heilige Stede te Amsterdam', Yohannes Sterck, 1898.
Source Firkin
A pattern derived from repeating unit cells each derived from part of a mosaic in paint.net. The starting point for the mosaic was a picture of some prawns!
Source Firkin
Here's a bluish gray striped background pattern for use on web sites.
Source V. Hartikainen
This is a remix of "blue wave-seigaiha".I hope this subtle color version of Seigaiha would be suitable for background .
Source Yamachem
A dark pattern made out of 3×3 circles and a 1px shadow. This works well as a carbon texture or background.
Source Atle Mo