Sweet and subtle white plaster with hints of noise and grunge.
Source Phil Maurer
From a drawing in 'Navigations de Alouys de Cademoste.-La Navigation du Capitaine Pierre Sintre', Alvise da ca da Mosto, 1895.
Source Firkin
Light honeycomb pattern made up of the classic hexagon shape.
Source Federica Pelzel
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
Old China with a modern twist, take two.
Source Adam Charlts
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
A background pattern inspired by designs seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857.
Source Firkin
Not the Rebel alliance, but a dark textured pattern.
Source Hendrik Lammers
First pattern tailor-made for Retina, with many more to come. All the old ones are upscaled, in case you want to re-download.
Source Atle Mo
I love these crisp, tiny, super subtle patterns.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
The starting point for this was a texture drawn with the 'Radial Colors' plug-in in Paint.net.
Source Firkin
A seamless dark leather-like background texture with diagonal lines that look like stitches.
Source V. Hartikainen
Recreated from a pattern found in 'Az Osztrák-Magyar Monarchia irásban és képben', 1882. To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
A seamless background tile of aged paper with shabby look.
Source V. Hartikainen
Very simple, very blu(e). Subtle and nice.
Source Seb Jachec
Got some felt in my mailbox today, so I scanned it for you to use.
Source Atle Mo
ZeroCC tileable beechwood wood texture, generated in Neo Texture Edit by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
A seamless pattern based on a square tile that can be retrieved in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
First pattern tailor-made for Retina, with many more to come. All the old ones are upscaled, in case you want to re-download.
Source Atle Mo
A bit like some carbon, or knitted netting if you will.
Source Anna Litvinuk
Colour version that is close to the original drawing uploaded to Pixabay by pencilparker.
Source Firkin
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin