From a drawing in 'At home', J. Sowerby, J. Crane and T. Frederick, 1881.
Source Firkin
Scanned some rice paper and tiled it up for you. Enjoy.
Source Atle Mo
Same as gray sand but lighter. A sandy pattern with small light dots, and some angled strokes.
Source Atle Mo
From a drawing in 'Studies for Stories', Jean Ingelow, 1864.
Source Firkin
Lovely light gray floral motif with some subtle shades.
Source GraphicsWall
A seamless pattern the starting point for which was a 'rainbow twist' texture in Paint.net.
Source Firkin
This one is so simple, yet so good. And you know it. Has to be in the collection.
Source Gluszczenko
This light background pattern has a texture of "frozen" surface with diagonal stripes. Here's an yet another addition to the collection of free website backgrounds.
Source V. Hartikainen
Background Wall, Art Abstract, Block Well & CC0 texture.
Source Ractapopulous
From a drawing in 'Cowdray: the history of a great English House', Julia Roundell, 1884.
Source Firkin
I skipped number 3, because it wasn’t all that great. Sorry.
Source Dima Shiper
This is so subtle you need to bring your magnifier!
Source Carlos Valdez
From a drawing in 'Bond Slaves. The story of a struggle.', Isabella Varley, 1893.
Source Firkin
Abstract Tiled Background Extended 12
Source GDJ
The act or state of corrugating or of being corrugated, a wrinkle; fold; furrow; ridge.
Source Anna Litvinuk
Vector version of a png that was uploaded to Pixabay by pencilparker
Source Firkin
Prismatic Basic Pattern 2 No Background
Source GDJ
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
Tile available in Inkscape using shift-alt-i on the selected rectangle
Source Firkin