More in the paper realm, this time with fibers.
Source Jorge Fuentes
A heavy hitter at 400x400px, but lovely still.
Source Breezi
From a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
Source Firkin
As simple and subtle as it gets. But sometimes that’s just what you want.
Source Designova
Dark, lines, noise, tactile. You get the drift.
Source Anatoli Nicolae
A fun-looking elastoplast/band-aid pattern. A hint of orange tone in this one.
Source Josh Green
A seamless gray background texture suitable for use on websites. To me, it has the look of stone. Feel free to modify it to meet your needs (by making it a bit lighter or darker, for example).
Source V. Hartikainen
Prismatic Geometric Tessellation Pattern No Background
Source GDJ
Design drawn in Paint.net, vectorised using Vector Magic and finished in Inkscape.
Source Firkin
A repeating background with a look of paper. I have added some changes to PatCreator. Now you can share your designs by submitting them to a new gallery section. Start by clicking Edit with PatCreator above.
Source V. Hartikainen
A very slick dark rubber grip pattern, sort of like the grip on a camera.
Source Sinisha
A seamless pattern of dark bricks. Maybe it's not very realistic, but it looks good in my opinion.
Source V. Hartikainen
The perfect pattern for all your blogs about type, or type-related matters.
Source Atle Mo
A heavy dark gray base, some subtle noise and a 45-degree grid makes this look like a pattern with a tactile feel to it.
Source Atle Mo
This was formed by distorting an image of a background on Pixabay.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Abstract Geometric Background 4
Source GDJ
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
If you’re sick of the fancy 3D, grunge and noisy patterns, take a look at this flat 2D brick wall.
Source Listvetra
Prismatic Abstract Background Design
Source GDJ
From a drawing of the coat of arms of the Ottoman Empire on Wikimedia.
Source Firkin
Not so subtle. These tileable wood patterns are very useful.
Source Elemis
Remixed from a drawing in 'Line and form', Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
From a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin