Sounds French. Some 3D square diagonals, that’s all you need to know.
Source Graphiste
This one is quite simple in design, it consists of vertical stripes layered on top of a seamless texture.
Source V. Hartikainen
From a drawing in 'Resa i Afrika, genom Angola, Ovampo och Damaraland', P. Moller, 1899.
Source Firkin
Made by distorting a simple pattern using the 'sin waves' plugin for Paint.net and vectorising in Vector Magic
Source Firkin
The starting point for this was a texture drawn with the 'Radial Colors' plug-in in Paint.net.
Source Firkin
Brushed aluminum, in a bright gray version. Lovely 2X as well.
Source Andre Schouten
By popular request, an outline version of the pentagon pattern.
Source Atle Mo
More tactile goodness. This time in the form of some rough cloth.
Source Bartosz Kaszubowski
Remixed from an image on Pixabay, the original having been uploaded by darkmoon1968.
Source Firkin
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
The tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Remixed from a drawing in 'The Canadian horticulturist', 1892
Source Firkin
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
The image depicts an edo-era pattern called "same-komon" or "鮫小紋"which looks like a shark skin.The "same" in Japanese means shark in English.
Source Yamachem
Formed by heavily distorting part of a an image of a fish uploaded to Pixabay by GLady
Source Firkin
It’s okay to be square! A nice light gray pattern with random squares.
Source Waseem Dahman
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
If you don’t like cream and pixels, you’re in the wrong place.
Source Mizanur Rahman
From a drawing in 'Navigations de Alouys de Cademoste.-La Navigation du Capitaine Pierre Sintre', Alvise da ca da Mosto, 1895.
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i
Source Firkin
Element of beach pattern with background.
Source Rones
A comeback for you: the popular Escheresque, now in black.
Source Patten
From a drawing in 'Royal Ramsgate', James Simson, 1897.
Source Firkin
Floral patterns will never go out of style, so enjoy this one.
Source Lasma