Horizontal and vertical lines on a light gray background.
Source Adam Anlauf
From a drawing in 'Studies for Stories', Jean Ingelow, 1864.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads', Ernest Suffling, 1892.
Source Firkin
Colour version of the original pattern.
Source Firkin
Small gradient crosses inside 45-degree boxes, or bigger crosses if you will.
Source Wassim
The tile this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i
Source Firkin
Clean and crisp lines all over the place. Wrap it up with this one.
Source Dax Kieran
The name tells you it has curves. Oh yes, it does!
Source Peter Chon
You can never get enough of these tiny pixel patterns with sharp lines.
Source Designova
A pattern formed from a squared tile. The tile can be accessed in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
This beige background pattern resembles a concrete wall with engravings or something similar to it.
Source V. Hartikainen
In the spirit of WWDC 2011, here is a dark iOS inspired linen pattern.
Source Atle Mo
Prismatic Polka Dots Mark II No Background
Source GDJ
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
This one is quite simple in design, it consists of vertical stripes layered on top of a seamless texture.
Source V. Hartikainen
Prismatic Polka Dots Mark II 3 No Background
Source GDJ
Remixed from a drawing in 'A Girl in Ten Thousand', Elizabeth Meade, 1896.
Source Firkin
You may use it as is, or modify it as you like.
Source V. Hartikainen
Just to prove my point, here is a slightly modified dark version.
Source Atle Mo
Different from the original in being a simple tile stored as a pattern definition, rather than numerous repeated objects. Hence easy and quick to give this pattern to objects of different shapes. To get the tile in Inkscape, select the rectangle and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be extracted by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin