From a drawing in 'Heroes of North African Discovery', Nancy Meugens, 1894.
Source Firkin
Can never have too many knitting patterns, especially as nice as this.
Source Victoria Spahn
Prismatic Abstract Geometric Background 4 No Black
Source GDJ
The file was named striped lens, but hey – Translucent Fibres works too.
Source Angelica
Awesome name, great pattern. Who does not love space?
Source Nick Batchelor
From a drawing in 'Handbook of the excursions proposed to be made by the Lincoln Diocesan Architectural Society, on the 27th and 28th of May, 1857', Edward Trollope, 1857.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Gately's World's Progress', Charles Beale, 1886.
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i. Derived from a design in 'Storia del Palazzo Vecchio in Firenze', Aurelio Gotti, 1889.
Source Firkin
You were craving more leather, so I whipped this up by scanning a leather jacket.
Source Atle Mo
I know there is one here already, but this is sexy!
Source Gjermund Gustavsen
Seamless , tileable CC-0 texture. Created by my own, feel free to use wherever you want!
Source Linolafett
Here's a tile-able wood background image for use in web design.
Source V. Hartikainen
This one is rather fun and playful. The 2X could be used at 1X too!
Source Welsley
A seamless pattern the starting point for which was a 'colour modulo' texture in Paint.net.
Source Firkin
The green fibers pattern will work very well in grayscale as well.
Source Matteo Di Capua
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
The square tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
From a design found in 'History of the Virginia Company of London; with letters to and from the first Colony, never before printed', Edward Neill, 1869.
Source Firkin
A heavy dark gray base, some subtle noise and a 45-degree grid makes this look like a pattern with a tactile feel to it.
Source Atle Mo
This one is super crisp at 2X. Lined paper with some dust and scratches.
Source HQvectors
Pattern #100! A black classic knit-looking pattern.
Source Factorio.us Collective