From a drawing in 'In an Enchanted Island', William Mallock, 1892.
Source Firkin
Seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Gately's World's Progress', Charles Beale, 1886.
Source Firkin
A nice looking light gray background pattern with diagonal stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
Based 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
Seamless , tileable CC-0 texture. Created by my own, feel free to use wherever you want!
Source Linolafett
Your eyes can trip a bit from looking at this – use it wisely.
Source Michal Chovanec
This seamless light brown background texture resembles a wallpaper with vertical stripes. One way to use it is as a tiled background on web sites.
Source V. Hartikainen
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
From a drawing in 'Line and form', Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
A gray background pattern with a texture of textile. Suits perfectly for web design.
Source V. Hartikainen
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
A pattern formed from a squared tile. The tile can be accessed in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
If you’re sick of the fancy 3D, grunge and noisy patterns, take a look at this flat 2D brick wall.
Source Listvetra
A grid of squares with green colours. Since the colours are randomly distributed it is automatically seamless.
Source Firkin
Dark squares with some virus-looking dots in the grid.
Source Hugo Loning
A seamless light gray paper texture with horizontal double lines.
Source V. Hartikainen
Remixed from a drawing in 'Line and form", Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a drawing in 'A Child of the Age', Francis Adams, 1894.
Source Firkin
Looks a bit like concrete with subtle specks spread around the pattern.
Source Mladjan Antic