From a drawing in 'Studies for Stories', Jean Ingelow, 1864.
Source Firkin
Zero CC tileable seed texture, edited by me to be seamless from a Pixabay image. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
From a drawing in 'Real Sailor-Songs', John Ashton, 1891.
Source Firkin
Fix and cc0 to get the tile this is based on.
Source SliverKnight
A seamless background pattern of dark brown wood planks.
Source V. Hartikainen
Super simple but very nice indeed. Gray with vertical stripes.
Source Merrin Macleod
This ons is quite old school looking. Retro, even. I like it.
Source Arno Declercq
From a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
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
Looks like an old rug or a computer chip.
Source Patutin Sergey
I have no idea what J Boo means by this name, but hey – it’s hot.
Source j Boo
Seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be extracted by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Bit of a strange name on this one, but still nice. Tiny gray square things.
Source Carlos Valdez
A seamless pattern formed from a square tile. To get the tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Greyscale version of a pattern that came out of playing with the 'light rays' plug-in for Paint.net
Source Firkin
Remixed from a drawing in 'An Index to Deering's Nottinghamia Vetus et Nova', Rupert Chicken, 1899. The unit tile can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i
Source Firkin
A car pattern?! Can it be subtle? I say yes!
Source Radosław Rzepecki
The original has been presented as black on transparent and stored in the pattern definitions. To retrieve the unit tile select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
It has waves, so make sure you don’t get sea sickness.
Source CoolPatterns
It almost looks a bit blurry, but then again, so are fishes.
Source Petr Šulc
Prismatic Abstract Geometric Background 5 No Black
Source GDJ
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Black And White Floral Pattern Background Inverse
Source GDJ