From a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
Source Firkin
Could remind you a bit of those squares in Super Mario Bros, yeh?
Source Jeff Wall
Heavy depth and shadows here, but might work well on some mobile apps.
Source Damian Rivas
This is a seamless pattern which is derived from a flower petal image.
Source Yamachem
Made by distorting a simple pattern using the 'sin waves' plugin for Paint.net and vectorising in Vector Magic
Source Firkin
More carbon fiber for your collections. This time in white or semi-dark gray.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
Formed by heavily distorting part of a an image of a fish uploaded to Pixabay by GLady
Source Firkin
Traced from a drawing in 'Household Stories from the Collection of the Brothers Grimm', Wilhelm Carl Grimm , 1882.
Source Firkin
A browner version of the original weathered fence texture.
Source Firkin
A rusty grunge background for websites. Feel free to use it in your site's theme.
Source V. Hartikainen
Greyscale version of a pattern that came out of playing with the 'light rays' plug-in for Paint.net
Source Firkin
A bit strange this one, but nice at the same time.
Source Diogo Silva
A seamless pattern of dark bricks. Maybe it's not very realistic, but it looks good in my opinion.
Source V. Hartikainen
This is the remix of an Openclipart clipart called "Maze" uploaded by "any_ono_mous".Thanks.This is a seamless pattern of a maze.
Source Yamachem
Detailed but still subtle and quite original. Lovely gray shades.
Source Kim Ruddock
An abstract pale yellow paper-like background with stains colored in yellow and green.
Source V. Hartikainen
More Japanese-inspired patterns, Gold Scales this time.
Source Josh Green
Super subtle indeed, a medium gray pattern with tiny dots in a grid.
Source Designova
More bright luxury. This is a bit larger than fancy deboss, and with a bit more noise.
Source Viszt Péter
The rectangular tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Not the Rebel alliance, but a dark textured pattern.
Source Hendrik Lammers
Luxury pattern, looking like it came right out of Paris.
Source Daniel Beaton
Remixed from a drawing in 'A Girl in Ten Thousand', Elizabeth Meade, 1896.
Source Firkin
So tiny, just 7 by 7 pixels – but still so sexy. Ah yes.
Source Dmitriy Prodchenko