A background formed from an image of an old tile on the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art website. To get the base tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Sometimes you just need the simplest thing.
Source Fabricio
You know you can’t get enough of these linen-fabric-y patterns.
Source James Basoo
A seamless pattern recreated from an image on Pixabay. It is reminiscent of parquet flooring and is formed from a square tile, which can be recovered in Inkscape by selecting the ungrouped rectangle and using shift-alt-I together.
Source Firkin
Gold Triangular Seamless Pattern No Background
Source GDJ
ZeroCC tileable stone texture, edited from pixabay. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
From a drawing in 'Jardyne's Wife', Charles Wills, 1891.
Source Firkin
Alternative colour scheme for the original floral pattern.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
Source Firkin
A dark pattern made out of 3×3 circles and a 1px shadow. This works well as a carbon texture or background.
Source Atle Mo
From a drawing in 'Hyde Park from Domesday-Book to date', John Ashton, 1896.
Source Firkin
Bigger is better, right? So here you have some large carbon fiber.
Source Factorio.us Collective
Prismatic Triangular Background Design Mark II 5
Source GDJ
This was formed by distorting an image of a background on Pixabay.
Source Firkin
This background image has seamless texture that resembles a surface of gray stone.
Source V. Hartikainen
Alternative colour scheme for the original floral pattern.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a raster on Pixabay, that was uploaded by ArtsyBee.
Source Firkin