Not a flat you live inside, like in the UK – but a flat piece of cardboard.
Source Appleshadow
A seamless pattern the starting point for which was a 'colour modulo' texture in Paint.net.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Artists and Arabs', Henry Blackburn, 1868.
Source Firkin
A free seamless background with pink spots.
Source V. Hartikainen
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
This is lovely, just the right amount of subtle noise, lines and textures.
Source Richard Tabor
The edges of all the red objects line up either vertically or horizontally, but it doesn't appear so. Made from a square tile that can be got by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a design seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Artists and Arabs', Henry Blackburn, 1868
Source Firkin
This seamless pattern consists of a blue grid on a yellow background.
Source V. Hartikainen
Zero CC tileable pine bark texture, photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Light gray pattern with an almost wall tile-like appearance.
Source Markus Tinner
Vector version of a png that was uploaded to Pixabay by pencilparker
Source Firkin
Bigger is better, right? So here you have some large carbon fiber.
Source Factorio.us Collective
A huge one at 800x600px. Made from a photo I took going home after work.
Source Atle Mo
One more brick pattern. A bit more depth to this one.
Source Benjamin Ward
Remixed from a drawing in 'A Child of the Age', Francis Adams, 1894.
Source Firkin
Can never have too many knitting patterns, especially as nice as this.
Source Victoria Spahn
The name tells you it has curves. Oh yes, it does!
Source Peter Chon
Background Wall, Art Abstract, Block Well & CC0 texture.
Source Ractapopulous
Greyscale version of a pattern that came out of playing with the 'slinky' plug-in for Paint.net
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'In an Enchanted Island', William Mallock, 1892.
Source Firkin
Looks like a technical drawing board: small squares forming a nice grid.
Source We Are Pixel8