Sometimes you just need the simplest thing.
Source Fabricio
Remixed from a drawing in 'A Girl in Ten Thousand', Elizabeth Meade, 1896.
Source Firkin
Here's a new paper-like background for free use on personal and commercial projects (this applies to all background patterns here).
Source V. Hartikainen
Formed by distorting the inside front cover of 'Diversæ insectarum volatilium : icones ad vivum accuratissmè depictæ per celeberrimum pictorem', Jacob Hoefnagel, 1630.
Source Firkin
Has nothing to do with toast, but it’s nice and subtle.
Source Pippin Lee
This makes me wanna shoot some pool! Sweet green pool table pattern.
Source Caveman
Some dark 45 degree angles creating a nice pattern. Huge.
Source Dark Sharp Edges
From a drawing in 'Hubert Montreuil, or the Huguenot and the Dragoon', Francisca Ouvry, 1873.
Source Firkin
This was formed by distorting an image of a background on Pixabay.
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern the starting point for which was a 'colour modulo' texture in Paint.net.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'In an Enchanted Island', William Mallock, 1892.
Source Firkin
A seamless green background texture. The image is distributed under a Creative Commons License (like all of the images here).
Source V. Hartikainen
Design drawn in Paint.net, vectorised using Vector Magic and finished in Inkscape.
Source Firkin
Seamless Prismatic Geometric Pattern With Background
Source GDJ
I have no idea how to describe this one, but it’s light and delicate.
Source JBasoo
Number five from the same submitter, makes my job easy.
Source Dima Shiper
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Zero CC tileable hard cover cells, skin like, book texture. 4K, Scanned and made by me CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Hey, you never know when you’ll need a bird pattern, right?
Source Pete Fecteau
Remixed from a JPG that was uploaded to Pixabay by Osckar
Source Firkin
One more sharp little tile for you. Subtle circles this time.
Source Blunia