Sort of like the Photoshop transparent background, but better!
Source Alex Parker
From a drawing in 'In an Enchanted Island', William Mallock, 1892.
Source Firkin
Detailed but still subtle and quite original. Lovely gray shades.
Source Kim Ruddock
Prismatic Geometric Tessellation Pattern 2 No Background
Source GDJ
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
You know I’m a sucker for these. Well-crafted paper pattern.
Source Mihaela Hinayon
From a drawing in 'Cassell's Library of English Literature', Henry Morley, 1883.
Source Firkin
From a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
With a name this awesome, how can I go wrong?
Source Nikolay Boltachev
Zero CC tileable dry grass texture, photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Greyscale version of a pattern that came out of playing with the 'light rays' plug-in for Paint.net
Source Firkin
Alternative colour scheme for the original floral pattern.
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is made up from select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
The name alone is awesome, but so is this sweet dark pattern.
Source Federica Pelzel
Dead simple but beautiful horizontal line pattern.
Source Fabian Schultz
A lot of people like the icon patterns, so here’s one for your restaurant blog.
Source Andrijana Jarnjak
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
This seamless pattern consists of a blue grid on a yellow background.
Source V. Hartikainen