From a drawing in 'Friend or Fortune? The story of a strange year', Robert Overton, 1897.
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
Remixed from a drawing in 'The Canadian horticulturist', 1892
Source Firkin
A nice one indeed, but I have a feeling we have it already? If you spot a copy, let me know on Twitter.
Source Graphiste
Not so subtle. These tileable wood patterns are very useful.
Source Elemis
Design drawn in Paint.net, vectorised using Vector Magic and finished in Inkscape.
Source Firkin
A background pattern inspired by designs seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857.
Source Firkin
It has waves, so make sure you don’t get sea sickness.
Source CoolPatterns
And some more testing, this time with Seamless Studio. It’s Robots FFS!
Source Seamless Studio
A seamless light gray paper texture with horizontal double lines.
Source V. Hartikainen
A light gray wall or floor (you decide) of concrete.
Source Atle Mo
From a drawing in 'An Old Maid's Love. A Dutch tale told in English', Maarten Maartens, 1891.
Source Firkin
Utilising a bird from s-light and some flowers from Almeidah. To get the unit tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
A very slick dark rubber grip pattern, sort of like the grip on a camera.
Source Sinisha
Seamless , tileable CC-0 texture. Created by my own, feel free to use wherever you want!
Source Linolafett
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
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
The name Paisley reminds me of an old British servant. That’s just me.
Source Swetha
The rectangular tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Heavy depth and shadows here, but might work well on some mobile apps.
Source Damian Rivas
From a drawing in 'Cassell's Library of English Literature', Henry Morley, 1883.
Source Firkin
The image depicts the Japanese Edo pattern called "seigaiha" or "青海波" meaning "blue -sea- wave".I hope it's suitable for the summer season.
Source Yamachem
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin