From a drawing in 'Friend or Fortune? The story of a strange year', Robert Overton, 1897.
Source Firkin
I’m not going to use the word Retina for all the new patterns, but it just felt right for this one. Huge wood pattern for ya’ll.
Source Atle Mo
A seamless background drawn in Paint.net and vectorised with Vector Magic. The starting point was a photograph of drinking straws from Pixabay.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Geometric Pattern Background 2 No Black
Source GDJ
A seamless pattern made from the gold Penrose triangle by GDJ and the two remixes
Source Firkin
Utilising some flowers from Almeidah. To get the unit tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Derived from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by Darkmoon1968
Source Firkin
A seamless tessellation pattern. To get the tile this is formed from, select the pattern in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
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
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
Prismatic Abstract Line Art Pattern Background
Source GDJ
Inspired by an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by geralt
Source Firkin
Floral patterns will never go out of style, so enjoy this one.
Source Lasma
Not the most creative name, but it’s a good all-purpose light background.
Source Dmitry
Light gray pattern with an almost wall tile-like appearance.
Source Markus Tinner
A large (588x375px) sand-colored pattern for your ever-growing collection. Shrink at will.
Source Alex Tapein
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Prismatic Basic Pattern 2 No Background
Source GDJ
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
An aged paper background tile with smeared and pressed text.
Source V. Hartikainen
Stefan is hard at work, this time with a funky pattern of squares.
Source Stefan Aleksić
Black paper texture, based on two different images.
Source Atle Mo
Based from Design Kindle
A background pattern inspired by designs seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857.
Source Firkin