A seamless striped fabric-like texture colored in a dark reddish brown color.
Source V. Hartikainen
Semi-light fabric pattern made out of random pixels in shades of gray.
Source Atle Mo
From a drawing in 'Artists and Arabs', Henry Blackburn, 1868.
Source Firkin
A subtle shadowed checkered pattern. Increase the lightness for even more subtle sexiness.
Source Josh Green
Never out of fashion and so much hotter than the 45º everyone knows, here is a sweet 60º line pattern.
Source Atle Mo
A background formed from an image of an old tile on the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art website. To get the base tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Curved Diamond Pattern 2 No Background
Source GDJ
A smooth mid-tone gray, or low contrast if you will, linen pattern.
Source Jordan Pittman
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
The green fibers pattern will work very well in grayscale as well.
Source Matteo Di Capua
Lovely pattern with splattered vintage speckles.
Source David Pomfret
Sharp pixel pattern, just like the good old days.
Source Paridhi
High detail stone wall with minor cracks and specks.
Source Projecteightyfive
Vertical lines with a bumpy, yet crisp, feel to it.
Source Raasa
CC0 and seamless wellington boot pattern.
Source SliverKnight
This one looks like a cork panel. Feel free to use it as a tiled background on your blog or website.
Source V. Hartikainen
A very slick dark rubber grip pattern, sort of like the grip on a camera.
Source Sinisha
Prismatic Hexagonalist Pattern No Background
Source GDJ
Colorful Floral Background 3 No Black
Source GDJ
From a drawing in 'At home', J. Sowerby, J. Crane and T. Frederick, 1881.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'At home', J. Sowerby, J. Crane and T. Frederick, 1881.
Source Firkin
Washi (和紙?) is a type of paper made in Japan. Here’s the pattern for you!
Source Carolynne
A seamless canvas texture for using as background on websites. Colored in pale tones of brown.
Source V. Hartikainen
Brushed aluminum, in a bright gray version. Lovely 2X as well.
Source Andre Schouten