From a drawing in 'From Snowdon to the Sea. Striking stories of North and South Wales', Marie Trevelyan, 1895.
Source Firkin
A slightly grainy paper pattern with small horizontal and vertical strokes.
Source Atle Mo
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
More tactile goodness. This time in the form of some rough cloth.
Source Bartosz Kaszubowski
Could be paper, could be a Polaroid frame – up to you!
Source Chaos
A pale olive green background with a seamless texture.
Source V. Hartikainen
This one could be the shirt of a golf player. Angled lines in different thicknesses.
Source Olivier Pineda
Seamless , tileable CC-0 texture. Created by my own, feel free to use wherever you want!
Source Linolafett
Design drawn in Paint.net, vectorised using Vector Magic and finished in Inkscape.
Source Firkin
Prismatic Chevrons Pattern 5 With Background
Source GDJ
The act or state of corrugating or of being corrugated, a wrinkle; fold; furrow; ridge.
Source Anna Litvinuk
A colourful background drawn originally in paint.net and vectorised in Vector Magic.
Source Firkin
A new take on the black linen pattern. Softer this time.
Source Atle Mo
A heavy dark gray base, some subtle noise and a 45-degree grid makes this look like a pattern with a tactile feel to it.
Source Atle Mo
This was formed by distorting an image of a background on Pixabay.
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern from a tile made from a jpg on Pixabay. To get the tile select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
This is sort of fresh, but still feels a bit old school.
Source Martuchox
Luxury pattern, looking like it came right out of Paris.
Source Daniel Beaton
Tiny little fibers making a soft and sweet look.
Source Badhon Ebrahim
From a drawing in 'Art Embroidery', M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister, 1878.
Source Firkin
A seamless pattern created from a square tile. To get the tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
It’s an egg, in the form of a pattern. This really is 2012.
Source Paul Phönixweiß
A smooth mid-tone gray, or low contrast if you will, linen pattern.
Source Jordan Pittman