From a drawing in 'Navigations de Alouys de Cademoste.-La Navigation du Capitaine Pierre Sintre', Alvise da ca da Mosto, 1895.
Source Firkin
A bit like some carbon, or knitted netting if you will.
Source Anna Litvinuk
A heavy hitter at 400x400px, but lovely still.
Source Breezi
Textured Red Brown Plastic, Free Background Pattern. Although there's already enough plastic in our lives, let's bring it to the web too.)
Source V. Hartikainen
I skipped number 3, because it wasn’t all that great. Sorry.
Source Dima Shiper
White fabric looking texture with some nice random wave features.
Source Hendrik Lammers
Simple combination of stripy squares with their negatively coloured counterparts
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern the starting point for which was a 'rainbow twist' texture in Paint.net.
Source Firkin
Light honeycomb pattern made up of the classic hexagon shape.
Source Federica Pelzel
A seamless pattern formed from background pattern 102
Source Firkin
Heavy depth and shadows here, but might work well on some mobile apps.
Source Damian Rivas
Light and tiny, just the way you like it.
Source Rohit Arun Rao
To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a design seen in 'Burghley. The Life of William Cecil', William Charlton, 1857.
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern from a tile made from a jpg on Pixabay. To get the tile select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a PNG that was uploaded to Pixabay by k_jprather
Source Firkin
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
The image is a seamless pattern of a fishnet.
Source Yamachem
New paper pattern with a slightly organic feel to it, using some thin threads.
Source Atle Mo
Same as gray sand but lighter. A sandy pattern with small light dots, and some angled strokes.
Source Atle Mo
If you want png files of this u can download them here : viscious-speed.deviantart.com/gallery/27635117
Source Viscious-Speed
Because I love dark patterns, here is Brushed Alum in a dark coating.
Source Tim Ward
A seamlessly repeating background pattern of wood. The image is procedurally generated, and, I think, it's turned out quite well.
Source V. Hartikainen
A brown seamless wood texture in a form of stripe pattern. The result has turned out pretty well, in my opinion.
Source V. Hartikainen
One can never have too few rice paper patterns, so here is one more.
Source Atle Mo
More bright luxury. This is a bit larger than fancy deboss, and with a bit more noise.
Source Viszt Péter