From a drawing in 'Les Chroniqueurs de l'Histoire de France depuis les origines jusqu'au XVIe siècle', Henriette Witt, 1884.
Source Firkin
Your eyes can trip a bit from looking at this – use it wisely.
Source Michal Chovanec
A seamless paper background colored in pale yellow.
Source V. Hartikainen
A seamless background drawn in Paint.net and vectorised with Vector Magic. The starting point was a photograph of drinking straws from Pixabay.
Source Firkin
A heavy dark gray base, some subtle noise and a 45-degree grid makes this look like a pattern with a tactile feel to it.
Source Atle Mo
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Super simple but very nice indeed. Gray with vertical stripes.
Source Merrin Macleod
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
From a drawing in 'At home', J. Sowerby, J. Crane and T. Frederick, 1881.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Curved Diamond Pattern 3 No Background
Source GDJ
I have no idea what J Boo means by this name, but hey – it’s hot.
Source j Boo
Derived from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by TheDigitalArtist
Source Firkin
It’s big, it’s gradient—and it’s square.
Source Brankic1979
This one is amazing, truly original. Go use it!
Source Viahorizon
This is a seamless pattern of a woody texture.The original image is here:https://pixabay.com/ja/users/ClassicallyPrinted-1302233/
Source Yamachem
A pale yellow background pattern with vertical stripes. The stripes are partially faded. I think this background image turned out pretty well, especially those faded stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
This ladies and gentlemen, is texturetastic! Love it.
Source Adam Pickering
A pattern drawn in Paint.net and vectorized in Inkscape.
Source Firkin
You know you can’t get enough of these linen-fabric-y patterns.
Source James Basoo
A pale olive green background with a seamless texture.
Source V. Hartikainen
Based on several public domain drawings on Wikimedia Commons. This was formed from a rectangular tile. The tile can be accessed in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift-alt-i
Source Firkin
This yellow background consists of a pattern of glossy gold buttons arranged in polka dot style on a seamless texture. Here's a pale yellow background pattern. Feel free to use it for your needs!
Source V. Hartikainen
A background pattern with blue on white vertical stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
A free background tile with a pattern of pink bump dots. This background tile is sweet! Moreover, it's designed for use as website backgrounds.
Source V. Hartikainen