Bright Multicolored Floral Background by Karen Arnold from PDP.
Source GDJ
From a drawing in 'Resa i Afrika, genom Angola, Ovampo och Damaraland', P. Moller, 1899.
Source Firkin
A pale yellow background pattern with vertical stripes. The stripes are partially faded. I think this background image turned out pretty well, especially those faded stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
Inspired by a drawing in 'Kulturgeschichte', Freidrich Hellwald, 1896.
Source Firkin
You know I’m a sucker for these. Well-crafted paper pattern.
Source Mihaela Hinayon
Could remind you a bit of those squares in Super Mario Bros, yeh?
Source Jeff Wall
Number 3 in a series of 5 beautiful patterns. Can be found in colors on the submitter’s website.
Source Janos Koos
A good starting point for a cardboard pattern. This would work well in a variety of colors.
Source Atle Mo
Lovely light gray floral motif with some subtle shades.
Source GraphicsWall
One of the few full-color patterns here, but this one was just too good to pass up.
Source Alexey Usoltsev
Design drawn in Paint.net, vectorised using Vector Magic and finished in Inkscape.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Abstract Geometric Background 5 No Black
Source GDJ
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
Might not be super subtle, but quite original in its form.
Source Alex Smith
By popular request, an outline version of the pentagon pattern.
Source Atle Mo
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
It’s like Shine Dotted’s sister, only rotated 45 degrees.
Source mediumidee
CC0 and a seamless pattern from a tile drawn in Paint.net .
Source SliverKnight
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Clean and crisp lines all over the place. Wrap it up with this one.
Source Dax Kieran
This pattern comes in orange, and it looks as if it is "made of glass".
Source V. Hartikainen
This could be a hippy vintage wallpaper.
Source Tileable Patterns
More Japanese-inspired patterns, Gold Scales this time.
Source Josh Green