Remixed from a drawing in 'Maidenhood; or, the Verge of the Stream', Laura Jewry, 1876.
Source Firkin
Your eyes can trip a bit from looking at this – use it wisely.
Source Michal Chovanec
A slightly more textured pattern, medium gray. A bit like a potato sack?
Source Bilal Ketab
Dark, crisp and subtle. Tiny black lines on top of some noise.
Source Wilmotte Bastien
Abstract Tiled Background Extended 11
Source GDJ
Hey, you never know when you’ll need a bird pattern, right?
Source Pete Fecteau
Remixed from a design seen on Pixabay. The basic tile can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern the starting point for which was a 'rainbow twist' texture in Paint.net.
Source Firkin
A textured orange background pattern with vertical stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
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
A huge one at 800x600px. Made from a photo I took going home after work.
Source Atle Mo
Here's a bluish gray striped background pattern for use on web sites.
Source V. Hartikainen
A seamless pattern with a unit cell drawn as a bitmap in Paint.net and vectorized in Vector Magic.
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Formed from decorative divider 184 in paint.net. Vectorised with Vector Magic.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a design seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857.
Source Firkin
I asked Gjermund if he could make a pattern for us – result!
Source Gjermund Gustavsen
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
A seamless pattern from a tile drawn in Paint.net and vectorised in Vector Magic
Source Firkin
Seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be extracted by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Alternative colour scheme. 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
Sort of reminds me of those old house wallpapers.
Source Tish
Super detailed 16×16 tile that forms a beautiful pattern of straws.
Source Pavel