From a drawing in 'In an Enchanted Island', William Mallock, 1892.
Source Firkin
Scanned some rice paper and tiled it up for you. Enjoy.
Source Atle Mo
Dark, square, clean and tidy. What more can you ask for?
Source Jaromír Kavan
A seamless pattern recreated from an image on Pixabay. It is reminiscent of parquet flooring and is formed from a square tile, which can be recovered in Inkscape by selecting the ungrouped rectangle and using shift-alt-I together.
Source Firkin
Otis Ray Redding was an American soul singer-songwriter, record producer, arranger, and talent scout. So you know.
Source Thomas Myrman
Seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be had 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
A light gray fabric pattern with faded vertical stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
This texture looks like old leather. It should look great as a background on web pages.
Source V. Hartikainen
A seamless light gray paper texture with horizontal double lines.
Source V. Hartikainen
Remixed from an image on Pixabay, the original having been uploaded by darkmoon1968.
Source Firkin
Sharp pixel pattern looking like some sort of fabric.
Source Dmitry
Here's a tile-able wood background image for use in web design.
Source V. Hartikainen
Might not be super subtle, but quite original in its form.
Source Alex Smith
If you don’t like cream and pixels, you’re in the wrong place.
Source Mizanur Rahman
Remixed from a drawing in 'The Canadian horticulturist', 1892
Source Firkin
This seamless web background texture looks like gray stone. It's great for using as a background image on web pages, or on some of their elements. Anyway, I hope you will find use for it.
Source V. Hartikainen
Simple wide squares with a small indent. Fits all.
Source Petr Šulc.
A background pattern inspired by designs seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857.
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern of dark bricks. Maybe it's not very realistic, but it looks good in my opinion.
Source V. Hartikainen
The tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern formed from miutopia mug remixes on a tablecloth.
Source Firkin
Vector version of a png that was uploaded to Pixabay by pencilparker
Source Firkin
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Geometric lines are always hot, and this pattern is no exception.
Source Listvetra
A slightly more textured pattern, medium gray. A bit like a potato sack?
Source Bilal Ketab
Design drawn in Paint.net, vectorised using Vector Magic and finished in Inkscape.
Source Firkin
The first pattern on here using opacity. Try it on a site with a colored background, or even using mixed colors.
Source Nathan Spady