Semi-light fabric pattern made out of random pixels in shades of gray.
Source Atle Mo
A seamless stone-like background for blogs or any other type of websites.
Source V. Hartikainen
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
Seamless pattern the tile for which can be had by using shift-alt-I on the selected rectangle in Inkscape.
Source Firkin
After 1 comes 2, same but different. You get the idea.
Source Hendrik Lammers
From a drawing in 'At home', J. Sowerby, J. Crane and T. Frederick, 1881.
Source Firkin
An abstract texture of black metal pipes (seamless).
Source V. Hartikainen
From a drawing in 'Heroes of North African Discovery', Nancy Meugens, 1894.
Source Firkin
A pattern formed from a photograph of a 16th century ceramic tile.
Source Firkin
A very dark asfalt pattern based off of a photo taken with my iPhone.
Source Atle Mo