By popular request, an outline version of the pentagon pattern.
Source Atle Mo
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Floral patterns might not be the hottest thing right now, but you never know when you need it!
Source Lauren
Seamless Background For Websites. It has a texture similar to cork-board.
Source V. Hartikainen
This one is rather fun and playful. The 2X could be used at 1X too!
Source Welsley
It almost looks a bit blurry, but then again, so are fishes.
Source Petr Šulc
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
A seamless background pattern with impressed gray dots.
Source V. Hartikainen
Made by distorting a simple pattern using the 'sin waves' plugin for Paint.net and vectorising in Vector Magic
Source Firkin
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
This is a hot one. Small, sharp and unique.
Source GraphicsWall
From a drawing in 'Les Chroniqueurs de l'Histoire de France depuis les origines jusqu'au XVIe siècle', Henriette Witt, 1884.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Less Black than we're painted', James Payn, 1884.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a design on Pixabay. To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
In the spirit of WWDC 2011, here is a dark iOS inspired linen pattern.
Source Atle Mo
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
Prismatic Groovy Concentric Background 5
Source GDJ
A simple circle. That’s all it takes. This one is even transparent, for those who like that.
Source Saqib
A background pattern inspired by designs seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857.
Source Firkin