A repeating background of thick textured paper. Actually, it turned out to look like something between a paper and fabric.
Source V. Hartikainen
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Bumps, highlight and shadows – all good things.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
Remixed from a drawing in 'Canadian forest industries July-December', 1915
Source Firkin
Nicely crafted paper pattern, although a bit on the large side (500x593px).
Source Blaq Annabiosis
This is a grid, only it’s noisy. You know. Reminds you of those printed grids you draw on.
Source Vectorpile
Colourful background achieved with gradient fills.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'An Old Maid's Love. A Dutch tale told in English', Maarten Maartens, 1891.
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
From an image on opengameart.org shared by rubberduck.
Source Firkin
I love cream! 50x50px and lovely in all the good ways.
Source Thomas Myrman
Remixed from a drawing in 'Line and form', Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
A seamless web texture of "green stone".
Source V. Hartikainen
Smooth Polaroid pattern with a light blue tint.
Source Daniel Beaton
From a drawing in 'At home', J. Sowerby, J. Crane and T. Frederick, 1881.
Source Firkin
This metal background pattern resembles a metal plate with rivets. Solid rivets on a metal plate.
Source V. Hartikainen
The image is a remix of "edo pattern-samekomon".I changed the color of dots from black to white and added BG in light-yellow.
Source Yamachem
Design drawn in Paint.net, vectorised using Vector Magic and finished in Inkscape.
Source Firkin
Pattern formed from simple shapes. Black version.
Source Firkin
The basic shapes never get old. Simple triangle pattern.
Source Atle Mo
To get the tile this is formed from select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Floral patterns will never go out of style, so enjoy this one.
Source Lasma
Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background
Source GDJ