Remixed from a drawing in 'A Child of the Age', Francis Adams, 1894.
Source Firkin
Recreated from a pattern found in 'Az Osztrák-Magyar Monarchia irásban és képben', 1882. To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Might not be super subtle, but quite original in its form.
Source Alex Smith
Made by distorting a simple pattern using the 'sin waves' plugin for Paint.net and vectorising in Vector Magic
Source Firkin
Seamless Dark Grunge Texture. Here's a new grunge texture for use as a background.
Source V. Hartikainen
A tile-able background for websites with paper-like texture and a grid pattern layered on top of it.
Source V. Hartikainen
This white background pattern has a seamless grunge style texture. Here's a white grunge style background pattern. Use it as a tiled background image on web sites or for other purposes.
Source V. Hartikainen
Pattern #100! A black classic knit-looking pattern.
Source Factorio.us Collective
First pattern tailor-made for Retina, with many more to come. All the old ones are upscaled, in case you want to re-download.
Source Atle Mo
Dark, square, clean and tidy. What more can you ask for?
Source Jaromír Kavan
Beautiful dark noise pattern with some dust and grunge.
Source Vincent Klaiber
Remixed from a drawing in 'Line and form', Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
Fix and cc0 to get the tile this is based on.
Source SliverKnight
Orange-red pattern for tiled backgrounds.
Source V. Hartikainen
From a drawing in 'Cowdray: the history of a great English House', Julia Roundell, 1884.
Source Firkin
To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Derived from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by darkmoon1968
Source Firkin