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
A bit strange this one, but nice at the same time.
Source Diogo Silva
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Sometimes simple really is what you need, and this could fit you well.
Source Factorio.us Collective
The image depicts an edo-era pattern called "same-komon" or "鮫小紋"which looks like a shark skin.The "same" in Japanese means shark in English.
Source Yamachem
White fabric looking texture with some nice random wave features.
Source Hendrik Lammers
Here is a new seamless wood texture for using as blog or website backgrounds.
Source V. Hartikainen
Recreated from a pattern found in 'Az Osztrák-Magyar Monarchia irásban és képben', 1882. To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Derived from elements found in a floral ornament drawing on Pixabay.
Source Firkin
Same as Silver Scales, but in black. Turn your site into a dragon with this great scale pattern.
Source Alex Parker
From an image on opengameart.org shared by rubberduck.
Source Firkin
A huge one at 800x600px. Made from a photo I took going home after work.
Source Atle Mo
More in the paper realm, this time with fibers.
Source Jorge Fuentes
Prismatic Isometric Cube Wireframe Pattern No Background
Source GDJ
To get the tile this is formed from select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
A dark brown fabric-like background texture with seamless pattern of winding stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
Alternative colour scheme for the original floral pattern.
Source Firkin
Inspired by a design found in 'Konstantinápolyi emlékeim', Miklos Chriszto, 1893.
Source Firkin
Fabric-ish patterns are close to my heart. French Stucco to the rescue.
Source Christopher Buecheler
From a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Derived from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by darkmoon1968
Source Firkin
Just like your old suit, all striped and smooth.
Source Alex Berkowitz
Fix and cc0 to get the tile this is based on.
Source SliverKnight
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Formed by distorting a JPG from PublicDomainPictures
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