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
The basic shapes never get old. Simple triangle pattern.
Source Atle Mo
I love these crisp, tiny, super subtle patterns.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
A seamless pattern based on a rectangular tile that can be retrieved in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
A criss-cross pattern similar to one I saw mown into a sports field.
Source Firkin
Pixel by pixel, sharp and clean. Very light pattern with clear lines.
Source M.Ashok
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
To get the tile this is made up from select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
From a drawing of the coat of arms of the Ottoman Empire on Wikimedia.
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
There are many carbon patterns, but this one is tiny.
Source Designova
Not strictly seamless in that opposite edges are not identical. But they do marry up to make an interesting pattern
Source Firkin
Sweet and subtle white plaster with hints of noise and grunge.
Source Phil Maurer
Background Wall, Art Abstract, Block Well & CC0 texture.
Source Ractapopulous
The image depicts a Japanese Edo pattern called "kanoko or 鹿の子" meaning "fawn" which has a fur with small white spots.
Source Yamachem
The following orange background pattern resembles a honeycomb.
Source V. Hartikainen
Prismatic Abstract Geometric Background 4 No Black
Source GDJ
The image depicts a shell seamless pattern.I used an OCAL clipart called "Shell" uploaded by "jgm104".Thanks.
Source Yamachem
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
Non-seamless pattern drawn in Paint.net and vectorised in Vector Magic.
Source Firkin
An alternative colour scheme to the original seamless pattern.
Source Firkin
A good starting point for a cardboard pattern. This would work well in a variety of colors.
Source Atle Mo