From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
Dark, lines, noise, tactile. You get the drift.
Source Anatoli Nicolae
Formed from a tile based on a drawing from 'Viaggi d'un artista nell'America Meridionale', Guido Boggiani, 1895.
Source Firkin
A seamless light gray paper texture with horizontal double lines.
Source V. Hartikainen
A seamless pattern created from a square tile. To get the tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
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
Number 5 in a series of 5 beautiful patterns. Can be found in colors on the submitter’s website.
Source Janos Koos
Number five from the same submitter, makes my job easy.
Source Dima Shiper
Derived from a drawing in 'The Murmur of the Shells', Samuel Cowen, 1879.
Source Firkin
This background pattern contains a seamless texture of bark. It's not very realistic, but I think it looks quite nice.
Source V. Hartikainen
Seamless , tileable CC-0 texture. Created by my own, feel free to use wherever you want!
Source Linolafett
Dark, square, clean and tidy. What more can you ask for?
Source Jaromír Kavan
I love these crisp, tiny, super subtle patterns.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
You know, tiny and sharp. I’m sure you’ll find a use for it.
Source Atle Mo
A seamless pattern of dark bricks. Maybe it's not very realistic, but it looks good in my opinion.
Source V. Hartikainen
Looks like a technical drawing board: small squares forming a nice grid.
Source We Are Pixel8
If you want png files of this u can download them here : viscious-speed.deviantart.com/gallery/27635117
Source Viscious-Speed
I’m starting to think I have a concrete wall fetish.
Source Atle Mo
This was formed by distorting an image of a background on Pixabay.
Source Firkin
Seamless Green Tile Background
Source V. Hartikainen
This one could be the shirt of a golf player. Angled lines in different thicknesses.
Source Olivier Pineda
From a drawing in 'Worsborough; its historical associations and rural attractions', Joseph Wilkinson, 1879.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Snowflakes Pattern No Background
Source GDJ