A seamless paper background colored in pale yellow.
Source V. Hartikainen
This one is rather fun and playful. The 2X could be used at 1X too!
Source Welsley
A free seamless background texture that looks like a brown stone wall.
Source V. Hartikainen
From a drawing in 'Navigations de Alouys de Cademoste.-La Navigation du Capitaine Pierre Sintre', Alvise da ca da Mosto, 1895.
Source Firkin
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
A textured orange background pattern with vertical stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
From a drawing in 'Codogno e il suo territorio nella cronaca e nella storia'', Gio and Giarella Cairo, 1897.
Source Firkin
The tile this is formed from can be retrieved in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
This background pattern looks like bamboo to me. Feel free to download it for your website (for your blog perhaps?).
Source V. Hartikainen
Scanned some rice paper and tiled it up for you. Enjoy.
Source Atle Mo
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Abstract Background Design No Black
Source GDJ
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
This is the remix of "Background pattern 115" uploaded by "Firkin".Thanks.
Source Yamachem
White handmade paper pattern with small bumps.
Source Marquis
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
From a drawing in 'In an Enchanted Island', William Mallock, 1892.
Source Firkin
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
From a drawing in 'Handbook of the excursions proposed to be made by the Lincoln Diocesan Architectural Society, on the 27th and 28th of May, 1857', Edward Trollope, 1857.
Source Firkin
More tactile goodness. This time in the form of some rough cloth.
Source Bartosz Kaszubowski
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Dark, lines, noise, tactile. You get the drift.
Source Anatoli Nicolae
Here is a new seamless wood texture for using as blog or website backgrounds.
Source V. Hartikainen