To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
A bit simplified version. Although it could be edited out to be simpler. Anyway, this time the tiling is converted to a pattern fill -which is using clipping for the tile's edges.
Source Lazur URH
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Utilising some flowers from Almeidah. To get the unit tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
A slightly more textured pattern, medium gray. A bit like a potato sack?
Source Bilal Ketab
One of the few full-color patterns here, but this one was just too good to pass up.
Source Alexey Usoltsev
Classy golf-pants pattern, or crossed stripes if you will.
Source Will Monson
Inspired by a 1930s wallpaper pattern I saw on TV.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a drawing in 'Some account of the Worshipful Company of Ironmongers', John Nicholl, 1866.
Source Firkin
The file was named striped lens, but hey – Translucent Fibres works too.
Source Angelica
Can’t believe we don’t have this in the collection already! Slick woven pattern with crisp details.
Source Max Rudberg
From a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern created from a square tile. To get the tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Inspired by a pattern found in 'A General History of Hampshire, or the County of Southampton, including the Isle of Wight', Bernard Woodwood, 1861
Source Firkin
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Just to prove my point, here is a slightly modified dark version.
Source Atle Mo
A mid-tone gray pattern with some cement looking texture.
Source Hendrik Lammers
Zero CC tileable bark texture, photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
From a design in 'Storia del Palazzo Vecchio in Firenze', Aurelio Gotti, 1889.
Source Firkin
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
From a drawing in 'Hyde Park from Domesday-Book to date', John Ashton, 1896.
Source Firkin
This pack of filters can help you adding a blocky overlay to objects. May come handy at drawing blocks of stone.
Source Lazur URH