Remixed from a drawing in 'Canadian forest industries July-December', 1915
Source Firkin
Prepared mostly as a raster in Paint.net and vectorised.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Made by distorting a simple pattern using the 'sin waves' plugin for Paint.net and vectorising in Vector Magic
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern of dark bricks. Maybe it's not very realistic, but it looks good in my opinion.
Source V. Hartikainen
From a drawing in 'Navigations de Alouys de Cademoste.-La Navigation du Capitaine Pierre Sintre', Alvise da ca da Mosto, 1895.
Source Firkin
As simple and subtle as it gets. But sometimes that’s just what you want.
Source Designova
Textured Red Brown Plastic, Free Background Pattern. Although there's already enough plastic in our lives, let's bring it to the web too.)
Source V. Hartikainen
Not a flat you live inside, like in the UK – but a flat piece of cardboard.
Source Appleshadow
Dark, lines, noise, tactile. You get the drift.
Source Anatoli Nicolae
To get the tile this is formed from select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Alternative colour scheme for the original floral pattern.
Source Firkin
A playful triangle pattern with different shades of gray.
Source Dimitrie Hoekstra
Derived from a PNG that was uploaded to Pixabay by nutkitten
Source Firkin
I’m not going to use the word Retina for all the new patterns, but it just felt right for this one. Huge wood pattern for ya’ll.
Source Atle Mo
Prismatic Abstract Line Art Pattern Background
Source GDJ
Submitted as a black pattern, I made it light and a few steps more subtle.
Source Andy
Just to prove my point, here is a slightly modified dark version.
Source Atle Mo
From a drawing in 'Real Sailor-Songs', John Ashton, 1891.
Source Firkin
Zero CC tileable wood texture, made by me procedurally in Neo Texture Edit.
Source Sojan Janso
Alternative colour scheme. Not a pattern for fabrics, but one produced from a jpg of a stack of fabric items that was posted on Pixabay. The tile that this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'At home', J. Sowerby, J. Crane and T. Frederick, 1881.
Source Firkin
One more from Badhon, sharp horizontal lines making an embossed paper feeling.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
Feel free to use this seamless background texture as a background on a web site. It's colored in a light pink color and is seamlessly tile-able.
Source V. Hartikainen
A light background pattern with diagonal stripes. Here's a simple light striped background for you.
Source V. Hartikainen
One more brick pattern. A bit more depth to this one.
Source Benjamin Ward
Background Wall, Art Abstract, Blue Well & CC0 texture.
Source Ractapopulous
It’s like Shine Dotted’s sister, only rotated 45 degrees.
Source mediumidee
Zero CC asphalt, pavement, texture, photographed and made by me. CC0 WARNING I FOUND A SEAM ON THIS TEXTURE
Source Sojan Janso
Greyscale version of a pattern that came out of playing with the 'slinky' plug-in for Paint.net
Source Firkin