From a drawing in 'Two Women in the Klondike', Mary Hitchcock, 1899.
Source Firkin
Not so subtle. These tileable wood patterns are very useful.
Source Elemis
ZeroCC tileable beechwood wood texture, generated in Neo Texture Edit by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Remixed from a design seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857.
Source Firkin
Don’t look at this one too long if you’re high on something.
Source Luuk van Baars
On a large canvas you can see it tiling, but used on smaller areas, it’s beautiful.
Source Paul Phönixweiß
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Geometric Pattern Background No Black
Source GDJ
Seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Prismatic Abstract Geometric Background 5 No Black
Source GDJ
Sort of like the Photoshop transparent background, but better!
Source Alex Parker
From a drawing in 'Cowdray: the history of a great English House', Julia Roundell, 1884.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Line and form', Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
No, not the band but the pattern. Simple squares in gray tones, of course.
Source Atle Mo
Vector version of a png that was uploaded to Pixabay by pencilparker
Source Firkin
Abstract Tiled Background Extended 8
Source GDJ
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
Zero CC tileable hard cover cells, skin like, book texture. 4K, Scanned and made by me CC0
Source Sojan Janso
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Dead simple but beautiful horizontal line pattern.
Source Fabian Schultz
Looks a bit like concrete with subtle specks spread around the pattern.
Source Mladjan Antic
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
Colour version that is close to the original drawing uploaded to Pixabay by pencilparker.
Source Firkin