From a drawing in 'Hyde Park from Domesday-Book to date', John Ashton, 1896.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'At home', J. Sowerby, J. Crane and T. Frederick, 1881.
Source Firkin
This one needs to be used in small areas; you can see it repeat.
Source Luca
Remixed from a raster on Pixabay that was uploaded by ArtsyBee.
Source Firkin
This beige background pattern resembles a concrete wall with engravings or something similar to it.
Source V. Hartikainen
Here's a camo print with more tan and less green, such as might be used in a desert scenario. This is tileable, so it can be used as a wallpaper or background.
Source Eady
Prismatic Hypnotic Pattern 2 No Background
Source GDJ
Detailed but still subtle and quite original. Lovely gray shades.
Source Kim Ruddock
Vector version of a png that was uploaded to Pixabay by pencilparker
Source Firkin
A seamless paper background colored in pale yellow.
Source V. Hartikainen
A background pattern inspired by designs seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857.
Source Firkin
You guessed it – looks a bit like cloth.
Source Peax Webdesign
Alternative 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
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
A nice one indeed, but I have a feeling we have it already? If you spot a copy, let me know on Twitter.
Source Graphiste
Orange-red pattern for tiled backgrounds.
Source V. Hartikainen
From a drawing in 'Uit de geschiedenis der Heilige Stede te Amsterdam', Yohannes Sterck, 1898.
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Submitted as a black pattern, I made it light and a few steps more subtle.
Source Andy
Remixed from a design seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857. The tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Bright Multicolored Floral Background by Karen Arnold from PDP.
Source GDJ
A free seamless background texture that looks like a brown stone wall.
Source V. Hartikainen
A blue background wallpaper for websites. It has a seamless texture with vertical stripes. It looks quite nice not only when using as a tiled background on websites, but also on computer desktops.
Source V. Hartikainen
Horizontal and vertical lines on a light gray background.
Source Adam Anlauf