From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Sort of like the back of a wooden board. Light, subtle, and stylish, just the way we like it!
Source Nikolalek
Medium gray pattern with small strokes to give a weave effect.
Source Catherine
This background has abstract texture with some similarities to wood.
Source V. Hartikainen
One more sharp little tile for you. Subtle circles this time.
Source Blunia
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
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
A nice one indeed, but I have a feeling we have it already? If you spot a copy, let me know on Twitter.
Source Graphiste
Tiny little fibers making a soft and sweet look.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
Almost like little fish shells, or dragon skin.
Source Graphiste
Number five from the same submitter, makes my job easy.
Source Dima Shiper
Geometric lines are always hot, and this pattern is no exception.
Source Listvetra
Geometric triangles seem to be quite hot these days.
Source Pixeden
Simple combination of stripy squares with their negatively coloured counterparts
Source Firkin
Prismatic Snowflakes Pattern 2 No Background
Source GDJ
I love cream! 50x50px and lovely in all the good ways.
Source Thomas Myrman
A seamless texture traced from an image on opengameart.org shared by Scouser.
Source Firkin
A seamlessly tileable pink background texture.
Source V. Hartikainen
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Derived from a drawing in 'Historiske Afhandlinger', Adolf Jorgensen, 1898.
Source Firkin
Zero CC tileable hard cover green book, scanned and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
A background tile of dark textile. Made this a long time ago and just now decided to publish it.
Source V. Hartikainen
Design drawn in Paint.net, vectorised using Vector Magic and finished in Inkscape.
Source Firkin
An interesting dark spotted pattern at an angle.
Source Hendrik Lammers
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