Remixed from a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'In an Enchanted Island', William Mallock, 1892.
Source Firkin
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
Remixed from a drawing in 'Works. Popular edition', John Ruskin, 1886.
Source Firkin
As simple and subtle as it gets. But sometimes that’s just what you want.
Source Designova
From a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
A version without colours blended together to give a different look.
Source Firkin
Greyscale version of a pattern that came out of playing with the 'light rays' plug-in for Paint.net
Source Firkin
Tweed is back in style – you heard it here first. Also, the @2X version here is great!
Source Simon Leo
A seamless pattern with wide vertical stripes colored in pale yellow.
Source V. Hartikainen
A new take on the black linen pattern. Softer this time.
Source Atle Mo
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
A new one called white wall, not by me this time.
Source Yuji Honzawa
Small gradient crosses inside 45-degree boxes, or bigger crosses if you will.
Source Wassim
Nothing like a clean set of bed sheets, huh?
Source Badhon Ebrahim
Here's a tile-able wood background image for use in web design.
Source V. Hartikainen
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
A smooth mid-tone gray, or low contrast if you will, linen pattern.
Source Jordan Pittman
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
A seamless background colored in pale orange. It has a paper like texture with diagonal grid pattern.
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
Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 3 No Black
Source GDJ