A comeback for you: the popular Escheresque, now in black.
Source Patten
From a drawing in 'Az Osztrák-Magyar Monarchia irásban és képben', 1885.
Source Firkin
Nice little grid. Would work great as a base on top of some other patterns.
Source Arno Gregorian
In the spirit of WWDC 2011, here is a dark iOS inspired linen pattern.
Source Atle Mo
The name is totally random, but hey, it sounds good.
Source Atle Mo
I’m guessing this is related to the Sony Vaio? It’s a nice pattern no matter where it’s from.
Source Zigzain
Looks a bit like concrete with subtle specks spread around the pattern.
Source Mladjan Antic
CC0 and a seamless pattern from a tile drawn in Paint.net .
Source SliverKnight
Used the 6th circle pattern designed by Viscious-Speed to create a print that can be used for card making or scrapbooking. Save as a PDF file for the best printing option.
Source Lovinglf
ZeroCC tileable stone texture, edited from pixabay. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
The tile this fill pattern is based on can be had by using shift+alt+i on the rectangle.
Source Firkin
Background formed from the iconic plastic construction bricks that gave me endless hours of fun when I was a lad.
Source Firkin
One can never have too few rice paper patterns, so here is one more.
Source Atle Mo
From a drawing in 'Navigations de Alouys de Cademoste.-La Navigation du Capitaine Pierre Sintre', Alvise da ca da Mosto, 1895.
Source Firkin
These dots are already worn for you, so you don’t have to.
Source Matt McDaniel
Continuing the geometric trend, here is one more.
Source Mike Warner
Remixed from a drawing in 'Incidents on a Journey through Nubia to Darfoor', F. Ensor, 1891.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Geometric Tessellation Pattern 2 No Background
Source GDJ
Remixed from a design found in 'History of the Virginia Company of London; with letters to and from the first Colony, never before printed', Edward Neill, 1869.
Source Firkin
Zero CC plastic pattern texture, photographed and made by me. CC0 *Note, this texture was on the perfectly smooth surface of a plastic shovel scraper, not sure how to call it. Plz coment if you know what its called.
Source Sojan Janso
Derived from a drawing in 'The Murmur of the Shells', Samuel Cowen, 1879.
Source Firkin
This background pattern contains a texture of yellow wood planks. I think it looks quite original.
Source V. Hartikainen
Made by distorting a simple pattern using the 'sin waves' plugin for Paint.net and vectorising in Vector Magic
Source Firkin
I guess this is inspired by the city of Ravenna in Italy and its stone walls.
Source Sentel
Classic vertical lines, in all its subtlety.
Source Cody L