Thick Textured Brown Paper #1070
Paper CC BY-SA 3.0A repeating background of thick textured paper. Actually, it turned out to look like something between a paper and fabric.
Source V. Hartikainen
More Textures
Fleurs-de-lys pattern 2 #2205
Dark CC 0Colour version of the original pattern inspired by the front cover of 'Old and New Paris', Henry Edwards, 1894.
Source Firkin
Mix Stone #1263
Stone CC 0Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Norwegian Rose #857
Light CC BY-SA 3.0I’m not going to lie – if you submit something with the words Norwegian and Rose in it, it’s likely I’ll publish it.
Source Fredrik Scheide
Cells #1285
Paper CC 0Zero CC tileable hard cover cells, skin like, book texture. 4K, Scanned and made by me CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Prismatic Geometric Tessellation Pattern No Background #551
Noise CC 0Prismatic Geometric Tessellation Pattern No Background
Source GDJ
"Black Metal Grid", Seamless Background Pattern #1080
Metal CC BY-SA 3.0A free seamless background pattern for use on websites.
Source V. Hartikainen
Part of Bayeux Tapestry 1 #2452
Noise CC 0From a drawing in 'Les Chroniqueurs de l'Histoire de France depuis les origines jusqu'au XVIe siècle', Henriette Witt, 1884.
Source Firkin
Background pattern 315 (colour 3) #1843
Green CC 0The rectangular tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Leafy decorative divider #1760
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'At home', J. Sowerby, J. Crane and T. Frederick, 1881.
Source Firkin
Wild Oliva #988
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0Wild Oliva or Oliva Wilde? Darker than the others, sort of a medium dark pattern.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
Decorative divider 191 #2515
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'Studies for Stories', Jean Ingelow, 1864.
Source Firkin
Rubber Grip #101
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0A very slick dark rubber grip pattern, sort of like the grip on a camera.
Source Sinisha
Simple Horizontal Light #982
Light CC BY-SA 3.0Sometimes you just need the simplest thing.
Source Fabricio
Fence 6 #2575
Wood CC 0A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
Floral background 22 (colour) #1779
Green CC 0From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Dark Leather #129
Dark CC BY-SA 3.0You were craving more leather, so I whipped this up by scanning a leather jacket.
Source Atle Mo
Fruit on a branch #1969
Dark CC 0From a drawing in 'Line and form', Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
Background pattern 202 (colour 2) #2489
Green CC 0Based 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
Fabric pattern 3 (colour 5) #2383
Fabric CC 0Alternative colour scheme. Not a pattern for fabrics, but one produced from a jpg of a stack of fabric items that was posted on Pixabay. The tile that this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Swirl@2X #948
Light CC BY-SA 3.0The name tells you it has curves. Oh yes, it does!
Source Peter Chon
Cardboard@2X #279
Paper CC BY-SA 3.0A good starting point for a cardboard pattern. This would work well in a variety of colors.
Source Atle Mo
Cover Green #1283
Dark CC 0Zero CC tileable hard cover green book, scanned and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso