A seamless texture of worn out "cardboard".
Source V. Hartikainen
Nicely crafted paper pattern, although a bit on the large side (500x593px).
Source Blaq Annabiosis
From a drawing in 'Navigations de Alouys de Cademoste.-La Navigation du Capitaine Pierre Sintre', Alvise da ca da Mosto, 1895.
Source Firkin
Sort of like the Photoshop transparent background, but better!
Source Alex Parker
Simple combination of stripy squares with their negatively coloured counterparts
Source Firkin
A dark gray, sandy pattern with small light dots, and some angled strokes.
Source Atle Mo
From a drawing in 'Resa i Afrika, genom Angola, Ovampo och Damaraland', P. Moller, 1899.
Source Firkin
Adapted heavily from a JPG that was uploaded to Pixabay by Viscious-Speed.
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern the unit cell for which can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
This is a semi-dark pattern, sort of linen-y.
Source Sagive SEO
Remixed from a vector adapted from a jpg on Pixabay. The tile this is constructed from can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Retro Circles Background 5 No Black
Source GDJ
A colourful background drawn originally in paint.net and vectorised in Vector Magic.
Source Firkin
A playful triangle pattern with different shades of gray.
Source Dimitrie Hoekstra
Turn your site into a dragon with this great scale pattern.
Source Alex Parker
From a design found in 'History of the Virginia Company of London; with letters to and from the first Colony, never before printed', Edward Neill, 1869.
Source Firkin
Number 1 in a series of 5 beautiful patterns. Can be found in colors on the submitter’s website.
Source Janos Koos
Remixed from a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892. The tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
From a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Submitted as a black pattern, I made it light and a few steps more subtle.
Source Andy
Some more diagonal lines and noise, because you know you want it.
Source Atle Mo