From a drawing in 'Bond Slaves. The story of a struggle.', Isabella Varley, 1893.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Little x’es, noise and all the stuff you like. Dark like a Monday, with a hint of blue.
Source Tom McArdle
Inspired by this, I came up with this pattern. Madness!
Source Atle Mo
Seamless Prismatic Pythagorean Line Art Pattern No Background. A seamless pattern that includes the original tile (go to Objects / Pattern / Pattern To Objects in Inkscape's menu to extract it).
Source GDJ
From a drawing in 'Cowdray: the history of a great English House', Julia Roundell, 1884.
Source Firkin
Another fairly simple design drawn in Paint.net and vectorized in Inkscape.
Source Firkin
Here's a brown background pattern with subtle stripes. I hope you'll like the color. If not, feel free to change it using an image editor, if you know how of course. Personally, I'm using GIMP to create these backgrounds.
Source V. Hartikainen
8 by 8 pixels, and just what the title says.
Source pixilated
A textured blue background pattern with vertical stripes.
Source V. Hartikainen
Formed from a tile that can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a drawing in 'In an Enchanted Island', William Mallock, 1892.
Source Firkin
More leather, and this time it’s bigger! You know, in case you need that.
Source Elemis
Formed by distorting the inside front cover of 'Diversæ insectarum volatilium : icones ad vivum accuratissmè depictæ per celeberrimum pictorem', Jacob Hoefnagel, 1630.
Source Firkin
No relation to the band, but damn it’s subtle!
Source Thomas Myrman
You know, tiny and sharp. I’m sure you’ll find a use for it.
Source Atle Mo
A seamless web background with texture of aged grid paper.
Source V. Hartikainen
More carbon fiber for your collections. This time in white or semi-dark gray.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
The image is the remix of "wire-mesh fence seamless pattern" .This is a more minute version of it.Sorry for the file size.Using path>difference in Inkscape, I will cut out any silhouette from this pattern and create a "meshed silhouette".
Source Yamachem
A new take on the black linen pattern. Softer this time.
Source Atle Mo
Recreated from a pattern found in 'Az Osztrák-Magyar Monarchia irásban és képben', 1882. To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Pattern produced in Paint.net using the Vibrato plug-in.
Source Firkin
Vertical lines with a bumpy, yet crisp, feel to it.
Source Raasa
It has waves, so make sure you don’t get sea sickness.
Source CoolPatterns
Seamless pattern the tile for which can be had by using shift-alt-I on the selected rectangle in Inkscape.
Source Firkin