From a drawing in 'Heroes of North African Discovery', Nancy Meugens, 1894.
Source Firkin
You know you love wood patterns, so here’s one more.
Source Richard Tabor
Looks like a technical drawing board: small squares forming a nice grid.
Source We Are Pixel8
Sounds like something from World of Warcraft. Has to be good.
Source Tony Kinard
Prismatic Abstract Geometric Background 4
Source GDJ
These dots are already worn for you, so you don’t have to.
Source Matt McDaniel
Number 1 in a series of 5 beautiful patterns. Can be found in colors on the submitter’s website.
Source Janos Koos
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
A rusty grunge background for websites. Feel free to use it in your site's theme.
Source V. Hartikainen
Abstract Tiled Background Extended 12
Source GDJ
The original enhanced with one of Inkscapes's filters.
Source Firkin
The image depicts meshed silhouettes of various things.The original image is an OCAL clipart called "Enter FOSSASIA 2016 #IoT T-shirt Design Contest" uploaded by "openclipart".Thanks.
Source Yamachem
Inspired by a pattern seen on a public domain image of a very old tile. To get the unit cell, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Used correctly, this could be nice. Used in a bad way, all hell will break loose.
Source Atle Mo
From a drawing in 'In an Enchanted Island', William Mallock, 1892.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Resa i Afrika, genom Angola, Ovampo och Damaraland', P. Moller, 1899.
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Coming in at 666x666px, this is an evil big pattern, but nice and soft at the same time.
Source Atle Mo
Might not be super subtle, but quite original in its form.
Source Alex Smith
A seamless background drawn in Paint.net and vectorised with Vector Magic. The starting point was a photograph of drinking straws from Pixabay.
Source Firkin
This white background pattern has a seamless grunge style texture. Here's a white grunge style background pattern. Use it as a tiled background image on web sites or for other purposes.
Source V. Hartikainen
Derived from a drawing in 'At home', J. Sowerby, J. Crane and T. Frederick, 1881.
Source Firkin
A monochrome pattern from a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscaope and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern the starting point for which was a 'colour modulo' texture in Paint.net.
Source Firkin
I love the movie Pineapple Express, and I’m also liking this Pineapple right here.
Source Audee Mirza
A pattern formed from a squared tile. The tile can be accessed in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin